Twitter is biased, only listens to govt: Rahul

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused social media company Twitter of being “a biased platform” that “listens to what the government says”, calling restrictions on his and his party colleagues’ accounts as interference with India’s political process.

Gandhi’s statement, issued in a video uploaded to YouTube, came after nearly 5,000 Twitter accounts including his, the party’s official handle, and multiple senior leaders’ was temporarily blocked for sharing a photograph that included the parents of an alleged rape victim.

“This is an attack on the democratic structure of the country,” Gandhi said in the statement. “A company is making its business to define our politics,” he said warning investors that “taking sides in the political contest has repercussions for Twitter.”