Twitter says it will engage openly if government asks for tweet removal

Days after Twitter was asked by the government to remove content criticising the handling of the pandemic in India, the company said in the event of receiving additional request to withhold content from the government, it’ll continue to engage openly and constructively keeping alive the spirit of public conversation during a crisis.

“We will also continue to proactively communicate to any affected account and also publish every individual request we receive from the government to the Lumen Database — a level of transparency that is unique in the industry,” Twitter said on Thursday. The firm, however, did not mention the nature of content it had pulled down recently.