DEEPLY TROUBLING IF TRUE: MIN ON LEFT-BIAS CHARGE AGAINST TWITTER

NEW DELHI: Union minister for state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Tuesday termed as “deeply troubling” an allegation that Twitter has strong left-wing bias, and that right-wingers were openly censored.

The minister was reacting to a viral video of one Siru Murugesan, who identified himself as a senior engineer at Twitter and claimed that the micro-blogging platform “does not believe in free speech” and that the culture there is extremely left.

The video was leaked by a farright activist group calling itself Project Veritas and was shared by journalist Tim Pool.

Taking note of the video, the minister said such incidents raised concerns about having an “open and accountable internet”. HT could not verify the authenticity of the video.

“This is deeply troubling if true... Revelations like this raise many concerns for us vis a vis a Open, Safe, Trusted and Accountable Internet,” he tweeted.