Govt-Twitter standoff continues: All you need to know

Government officials on Wednesday expressed displeasure over Twitter’s partial compliance with the government’s requests to block access to over 1,100 accounts and posts allegedly spreading misinformation about the farmers’ protests against new agricultural laws. Here is all you need to know about the matter:

• Twitter on Wednesday said that it complied partially with the government’s requests to block access.

• It said it did not act against accounts of journalists, activists, and politicians since the directions to block them were “not consistent with Indian law”

• The government expressed “disappointment” over the non-compliance during a meeting with top executives of the social media company.