Twitter Removes Tweets Criticizing Indian Government's Corona Approach

Twitter has removed dozens of tweets at the request of the Indian government criticizing the same government's corona approach. The messages, including from a critical member of parliament, minister of an Indian state, an actor and two film producers, are no longer visible to Indian Twitter users, MediaNama reports . It would be a total of 52 messages.

Twitter says in a response to the incident that it will delete tweets if they violate the rules. If it turns out that messages do not violate the rules, but do violate a certain jurisdiction, access can only be blocked in India. Users whose tweets are no longer visible will be informed about this by Twitter.