Twitter says will engage openly, constructively on content withholding requests

Days after it blocked dozens of posts allegedly critical of Covid-19 crisis handling, Twitter has said it will consider more requests from the government to withhold content and will continue to engage “openly and constructively” with it.

“We notify the account holder directly so they’re aware that we’ve received a legal order pertaining to the account by sending a message to the email address associated with the account(s), if available, unless we are prohibited from doing so,” Twitter said in a blog on Thursday.

The microblogging platform had received a number of takedown requests from India over the past few months around content that the government termed as misinformation around farmer protests and the Covid-19 pandemic.