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Jyoti: /* 2021: Twitter blocks 97% handles on govt list */

2024-03-07T21:28:31Z

‎2021: Twitter blocks 97% handles on govt list

Pdewan: /* ‘Twitter interfering in our pol process’ */

2024-02-23T19:30:13Z

‎‘Twitter interfering in our pol process’

Pdewan: Pdewan moved page Twitter and India to X/ Twitter and India without leaving a redirect

2024-02-23T19:27:48Z

Pdewan moved page Twitter and India to X/ Twitter and India without leaving a redirect

Jyoti: /* Blocking prominent accounts */

2023-07-07T06:37:38Z

‎Blocking prominent accounts

Jyoti: /* “GOI forced its agent on Twitter payroll” */

2023-06-26T15:55:46Z

‎“GOI forced its agent on Twitter payroll”

Pdewan: /* 2021: Manipulated media’ */

2022-08-24T17:52:47Z

‎2021: Manipulated media’

Jyoti: /* The most followed Indians */

2021-08-16T19:48:48Z

‎The most followed Indians

Jyoti: /* Controversies */

2021-06-27T08:07:51Z

‎Controversies

Jyoti at 19:04, 26 May 2021

2021-05-26T19:04:20Z

Jyoti: /* The usage of Twitter */

2021-03-07T21:13:34Z

‎The usage of Twitter

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 Sources said that during the meeting, Baker, Twitter’s VP for legal matters, assured government representatives that the company would be mindful of the concerns. “Baker said that the global management of Twitter can be approached directly in case of violations that are sensitive in nature. This is seen as a massive reassurance to tackle hate, inflammatory and irresponsible messaging,” the source said.
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+[https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=23_02_2024_001_009_cap_TOI  Pankaj Doval, February 23, 2024: ''The Times of India'']
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+New Delhi:Govt and Twitter (now called X) are at loggerheads again over the issue of ‘freedom of expression’ amid charges by the social media giant that accounts related to farmers’ protests had been ordered to be censured.
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+ The micro-blogging platform, now owned by American businessman Elon Musk, on Thursday disclosed it was instructed by govt to take down “specific accounts and posts”, or else risk facing “penalties including significant fines and imprisonment”.
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+ The statement came amid farmer unions’ stir to press for alaw guaranteeing MSP along with a host of other demands.
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 Congress MP Rahul Gandhi accused Twitter of “interfering” in India’s political process and making it company’s business “to define our politics”. Rahul said Twitter’s move to lock his account was not only “patently unfair”, but also “breaching the idea that Twitter is a neutral platform”.
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 The minister said there will be “no compromise” in ensuring that Twitter adheres to the new IT rules.
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	Twitter’s former security chief Peiter Zatko has alleged that the Indian government forced it to put its agent on the payroll, according to a whistleblower disclosure with US regulators. Zatko raised the issue with the US SEC, said a Reuters report. Zatco said the agent would have had access to sensitive user data due to Twitter’s weak security infrastructure. IT ministry officials did not respond to requests for comments. Twitter rubbished Zatko’s claims.		Twitter’s former security chief Peiter Zatko has alleged that the Indian government forced it to put its agent on the payroll, according to a whistleblower disclosure with US regulators. Zatko raised the issue with the US SEC, said a Reuters report. Zatco said the agent would have had access to sensitive user data due to Twitter’s weak security infrastructure. IT ministry officials did not respond to requests for comments. Twitter rubbished Zatko’s claims.
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		+	==India threatened to shut down Twitter: Dorsey; govt denies==
		+	[https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-turkey-nigeria-threatened-to-shut-down-twitter-founder-says-8659844/ Soumyarendra Barik, June 14, 2023: ''The Indian Express'']
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		+	Twitter’s co-founder and former boss Jack Dorsey has reiterated that the platform received “many requests” from the Indian government to block accounts covering farmers’ protests and those critical of the government. He has also said that the platform was threatened with “a shut down” and conducting raids at its employees’ homes in the country.
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		+	Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar responded to Dorsey’s claims, saying that under him, Twitter was in “repeated and continuous violations of India law” and at times “weaponised misinformation”.
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		+	It is worth noting that Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk also has a similar view of India’s social media regulations, having previously called them “strict”. In April this year, Musk had said that he would rather comply with the government’s blocking orders than risk sending Twitter employees to jail.
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		+	Musk was possibly referring to India’s Information Technology Rules, 2021, under which a senior representative of social media companies – called the chief compliance officer – can be potentially jailed for violating the norms.
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		+	''' ‘We will shut you down if you don’t follow suit’ '''
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		+	During an interview late Monday night to YouTube channel Breaking Points, when asked about the pressures he had received from foreign governments during his time as CEO of Twitter, Dorsey said, “India is a country that had many request of us around the farmers protest, around particular journalists that were critical of the government, and it manifested in ways such as ‘we will shut Twitter down in India,’ which is a very large market for us; ‘we will raid the homes of your employees,’ which they did; ‘we will shut down your offices, if you don’t follow suit,’ and this is India, a democratic country”.
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		+	At the height of the farmers’ protest in the country in 2021, the Centre had asked Twitter to take down nearly 1,200 accounts for alleged “Khalistan” links. Before that, it had asked the platform to take down more than 250 accounts.
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		+	Twitter had responded by blocking some of the accounts but subsequently unblocked them, which had irked the IT ministry. Later in its reply, Twitter had refused to block these accounts further citing freedom of speech on its platform. The reply, however, had not gone down well with the Government, which had said that the platform could not possibly “assume the role of a court and justify non-compliance”.
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		+	In May 2021, days after Twitter flagged some posts by ruling party leaders alleging a Congress plot to malign the Prime Minister and the Central Government as “manipulated media”, a team of Delhi Police’s Special Cell — working under the Union Home Ministry — knocked on the doors of Twitter India’s Delhi and Gurgaon offices to ostensibly serve the social media platform a notice.
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		+	''' ‘Outright lie’ by Dorsey: MoS IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar '''
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		+	Reacting to Dorsey’s claims, Chandrasekhar said that no one from Twitter went to jail nor was the platform “shutdown” despite the fact that they were in “non-compliance with law repeatedly from 2020 to 2022 and it was only in June 2022 when they finally complied”.
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		+	“Dorsey’s Twitter regime had a problem accepting the sovereignty of Indian law. It behaved as if the laws of India did not apply to it,” Chandrasekhar said. “India as a sovereign nation has the right to ensure that its laws are followed by all companies operating in India.”
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		+	He added that the Centre was “obligated” to issue takedown orders during the farmers’ protest in 2021 since there was “a lot of misinformation and reports of genocide which were definitely fake”.
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		+	“Such was the level of partisan behaviour on Twitter under Jack’s regime, that they had a problem removing misinformation from the platform in India, when they did it themselves when similar events took place in the USA,” he said.
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		+	''' Growing trend of online censorship '''
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		+	There has been a significant surge in legal demands being made by India — from various courts and the government — to remove content from Twitter between 2014 and 2020, an analysis of Twitter’s global transparency reports by The Indian Express had earlier shown. Incidentally, in the same time period, the number of content blocking orders issued to social media companies by the government has also increased by almost 2,000 per cent, data shared with Parliament showed, highlighting the growing trend of online censorship in India.
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		+	In the first six months of 2021, Twitter was asked by various Indian courts and the government to block a little more than 4,900 tweets — this coincided with the company blocking more than 250 accounts in relation to sharing “provocative” tweets over the then ongoing farmers’ protests and the company receiving orders from the government to take down some tweets critical of the government’s handling of Covid-19.
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		+	''' Twitter suing the Centre '''
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		+	In July 2022, Twitter initiated legal action against some of the government missives ordering it to take down certain content posted on the microblogging site. Alleging disproportionate use of power by officials, the social media company moved the Karnataka High Court Tuesday against the Ministry’s content-blocking orders issued under Section 69 (A) of the Information Technology Act, 2000.

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	Depending on the severity of the fabrication and the likely harm it can cause, Twitter either labels content or removes them from the platform. The company also reduces visibility of such content, and warns users that “repeated violations” can lead to their accounts being permanently suspended.		Depending on the severity of the fabrication and the likely harm it can cause, Twitter either labels content or removes them from the platform. The company also reduces visibility of such content, and warns users that “repeated violations” can lead to their accounts being permanently suspended.
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		+	==“GOI forced its agent on Twitter payroll”==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/article-share?article=24_08_2022_001_010_cap_TOI The Times of India, 24 August 2022]
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		+	GOI forced Twitter to put its agent on payroll: Report
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		+	Twitter’s former security chief Peiter Zatko has alleged that the Indian government forced it to put its agent on the payroll, according to a whistleblower disclosure with US regulators. Zatko raised the issue with the US SEC, said a Reuters report. Zatco said the agent would have had access to sensitive user data due to Twitter’s weak security infrastructure. IT ministry officials did not respond to requests for comments. Twitter rubbished Zatko’s claims.
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	Depending on the severity of the fabrication and the likely harm it can cause, Twitter either labels content or removes them from the platform. The company also reduces visibility of such content, and warns users that “repeated violations” can lead to their accounts being permanently suspended.		Depending on the severity of the fabrication and the likely harm it can cause, Twitter either labels content or removes them from the platform. The company also reduces visibility of such content, and warns users that “repeated violations” can lead to their accounts being permanently suspended.
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		+	==As in 2021 June==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2021%2F06%2F26&entity=Ar00506&sk=729C37F0&mode=text Pankaj Doval, June 26, 2021: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	At a time when it is in the thick of the storm around its reluctance to follow India’s new IT rules, Twitter was embroiled in a fresh controversy and embarrassment on Friday after IT and law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad revealed that his account was blocked for nearly an hour over alleged violation of an American copyright law due to one of his tweets.
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		+	The minister linked the action by the global microblogging giant to his tough stand against the company over non-compliance with the new rules. “Twitter’s actions indicate that they are not the harbinger of free speech that they claim to be but are only interested in running their own agenda, with the threat that if you do not tow the line they draw, they will arbitrarily remove you from their platform,” Prasad said in a series of tweets.
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		+	It later emerged, through the Lumen database of Harvard University, that Prasad’s tweet that resulted in the action was from December 2017. He had tagged music composer AR Rahman’s ‘Maa Tujhe Salaam’ video, while writing about India’s 1971 victory over Pakistan. The video, according to Twitter, violated copyright laws after there was a complaint to this effect.
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		+	What is, however, still unclear is why the company had taken the action after nearly three and a half years, especially when it is embroiled in a bitter exchange with the government over the new IT rules. Also, why the minister’s account was restored after just an hour it was indeed deemed to have violated an American law.
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		+	Prasad alleged the action and “agenda” by Twitter was the result of the government’s “no compromise” stand against the company after it failed to comply with the new rules.
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		+	''' It’s apparent why Twitter is refusing to comply: Prasad '''
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		+	The non-compliance has seen Prasad’s IT ministry reprimand Twitter over the past few weeks, while the company also lost its ‘safe harbour’ protection over third-party content, just when an FIR was filed against its India MD in relation to a probe by Ghaziabad Police.
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		+	When contacted about the action against Prasad’s account, a spokesperson for Twitter said, “We can confirm that the minister’s account access was temporarily restricted due to a DMCA notice only and the referenced tweet has been withheld. Per our copyright policy, we respond to valid copyright complaints sent to us by a copyright owner or their authorised representatives.”
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		+	Prasad, who voluntarily disclosed Twitter’s action, ironically on Twitter, and its local rival Koo, at 3.42pm, claimed that the “highly peculiar” action showed that Twitter is against carriage of free speech, and is interested in running its own “agenda”.
		+	The minister, who advocated action against the company as he wasn’t served prior notice, carried screenshots of the email communication that he had received from Twitter during the blocking, and unblocking, but this didn’t have any timeline and dates.
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		+	He said the company’s actions were in “gross violation” of Rule 4(8) of the IT Rules, 2021. “It’s apparent that my statements calling out the high handedness and arbitrary actions of Twitter, particularly sharing the clips of my interviews to TV channels and its powerful impact, have clearly ruffled its feathers. It is apparent as to why Twitter is refusing to comply with intermediary norms because if Twitter complies, it would be unable to arbitrarily deny access to an individual’s account which doesn’t suit their agenda,” the minister said.
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		+	The minister said there will be “no compromise” in ensuring that Twitter adheres to the new IT rules.
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	Social media will be a distinct factor in this election, felt Kumaraguru, and women politicians appeared to have a lot of clout on social media. “Gender diversity is a universal topic, and we find interesting patterns like female handles re-tweeting more,” said Kumaraguru. “Tweets by females on average get retweeted more than those by men — 550 times compared with 530 times for tweets by males.”		Social media will be a distinct factor in this election, felt Kumaraguru, and women politicians appeared to have a lot of clout on social media. “Gender diversity is a universal topic, and we find interesting patterns like female handles re-tweeting more,” said Kumaraguru. “Tweets by females on average get retweeted more than those by men — 550 times compared with 530 times for tweets by males.”
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		+	==2021: What Indian women tweeted about==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2021%2F03%2F07&entity=Ar01511&sk=DC66DD1E&mode=text Shobita Dhar, Passions & pursuits: What Indian women tweet about, March 7, 2021: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	What do Indian women talk about on twitter? “Passions and pursuits” is the most discussed topic of conversation, with 25% of all women users coming on to Twitter to seek and consume this content. Out of this 25%, the majority (30%) seek content on fashion, 28% on books, 25% on beauty, 21% on movies and TV and 14% on sports. Over 40% of women said they discovered a new interest on Twitter.
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		+	‘Current affairs’ is the second most searched and consumed content, with 21% of all women users using Twitter to know what’s going on around them. Women from Delhi and Guwahati led this segment. About 21% use Twitter to stay informed on local and international news. Tweets about #StudentExams, #COVID19 related updates and #DelhiElections2020 dominated the conversation in this category.
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		+	These are findings from a research commissioned by Twitter India ahead of International Women’s Day. For the report, a qualitative curation and analysis of 5,22,992 tweets sent from Twitter accounts of women between January 2019 and February 2021 in 10 Indian cities was done.
		+	The majority of women, 33%, use Twitter while commuting; 29% catch up on the latest tweets during breakfast and 22% don’t go to bed without looking it up. Although Twitter doesn’t have data on how many women users it has in India, their research found that almost 9% use it to create and participate in social movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp.
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		+	While Twitter can often be a toxic place for women with many journalists, celebrities and politicians often receiving abuse and even rape threats on it, this doesn’t deter women from using the platform. About 40% said it provides them with freedom of expression.
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		+	About 12% used the platform to connect and network with others in their communities, like #WomenInScience and #GirlGamers. Women from Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad were especially found to be active in this category. Nearly 7% women used Twitter to share and talk about everyday hardships like #Parenting, #WorkingFromHome.
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		+	“We commissioned this research to build our understanding about women on Twitter. Access to a free and open internet has made it possible for everyone to express themselves freely without barriers,” said Manish Maheshwari, managing director, Twitter India. While 41% of women have sought advice/tips/recommendations on the service, 37% have given advice/tips/recommendations.
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