The Delhi Police Special Cell sent notice to Twitter in connection with a probe over “manipulated media” tag used with some of the posts on an alleged Congress “toolkit” against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government.
The Delhi police have asked Twitter to share the information that it has in regard to the alleged toolkit and why it used the “manipulated media” tag.
Earlier, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had written to Twitter objecting to it tagging some of the posts on an alleged Congress “toolkit” against the Modi government, as “manipulated media”.
It asked Twitter to remove the tag as the matter is pending investigation before a law enforcement agency.
“Twitter unilaterally chose to go ahead and designate certain tweets as ‘Manipulated’, pending investigation by the law enforcement agency. This action not only dilutes the credibility of Twitter as a neutral and unbiased platform facilitating the exchange of views by the users but also puts a question mark on the status of Twitter as an ‘intermediary’,” the Ministry of Electronics and IT said in its communication.
BJP on May 18 slammed Congress for its “toolkit on COVID-19 pandemic”.
Addressing the media BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra alleged that the toolkit has instructions for social media volunteers of Congress to call the new COVID-19 mutant as “Indian strain” or “Modi strain” against the World Health Organization’s (WHO) instructions.
