Twitter, FB, delete 100 posts criticial of Govt’s mishandling of Covid

Twitter and other social media platforms have removed about 100 posts and URLs after the Government asked them to remove content that was critical of the handling of the current medical crisis or spreading fake news around the pandemic. Twitter said it has notified the impacted account holders of its action taken in response to a legal request from the Indian government, while Facebook did not comment on the issue.

Sources said the companies have complied with the order. However, it wasn’t immediately known what the removed posts were.

Meanwhile, Government sources said the IT Ministry, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Home Affairs, asked the social media platforms to remove the posts and URLs (uniform resource locators)