15 - Jun - 2023

Remove sensitive tweets related to Farmers’ Agitation – Government of India ordered to Twitter.

Twitter’s co-founder and former CEO, Jack Dorsey, has made a shocking revelation that, at the peak of the Farmers’ Agitation in 2021, the government of India had ordered Twitter to remove sensitive tweets related to the Farmers’ Agitation. Jack Dorsey has revealed that, the government of India had even threatened to shut-down the services of Twitter in India and also to raid the homes of it’s employees, unless Twitter removed sensitive posts during the 2021 Farmers’ Protests. Jack Dorsey has made the above comments while answering to a question about the pressures that he had faced from foreign governments, during his tenure as the CEO of Twitter.  However, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for IT, has said that the statements of Jack Dorsey were outright lies.