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Synopsis: <\/b>The Government of India ordered micro-blogging platform Twitter to remove the label of manipulated media from some posts shared by its officials. This included Union Ministers, but this order has no legal foot to stand on.<\/span><\/p>\n Background\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n It is alleged that the Government of India is willing to empower officials to attack political opponents and misinform the public. The officials spread the \u2018toolkit\u2019 prepared by the opposition to vilify the government on Twitter. The opposition has filed a police complaint against the officials stating that the document is fake.<\/span><\/p>\n Twitter has also tagged some of the posts in this matter as manipulated. This tag suggests that as per Twitter documents attached were forged or manipulated.<\/p>\n How has Twitter responded to the government’s directive?<\/b><\/p>\n The government of India has said that the tag was biased, and a measured attempt to colour the investigation by local law enforcement agencies. Thus, the government ordered Twitter to remove those tags. There are many issues involved in this matter.<\/span><\/p>\n The conclusion\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n The government\u2019s move raises serious worries about random censorship and transparency. The Centre’s attempt to control any dialogue on its failures will lead to situations that embarrass a democracy. The Centre should discipline its officials into more civility and truthfulness in their engagement with critics.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>click here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Synopsis: The Government of India ordered micro-blogging platform Twitter to remove the label of manipulated media from some posts shared by its officials. This included Union Ministers, but this order has no legal foot to stand on. Background\u00a0\u00a0 It is alleged that the Government of India is willing to empower officials to attack political… Continue reading Tussle between Government and Social Media Platform<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230],"tags":[1293],"class_list":["post-108641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","tag-sec_1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704931104},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n