TWITTER ROASTED OVER BLOCKING OF SHAH’S ACCOUNT

Members of a parliamentary committee on Thursday raised the issue of twitter temporarily blocking the account of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in 2020 as well as misrepresentation of the Indian map by the microblogging site, sources said. The parliamentary standing committee on Information Technology on Thursday interacted separately with representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on the issue of safeguarding citizens' rights, preventing misuse of social news media platforms and women security in the digital space. During the interaction with Twitter representatives, some members, mostly from the ruling BJP, raised the issue of the platform blocking the account of Shah for a short period late last year. Some members questioned the fact-checking mechanism at Twitter and wondered how the account of countr y's home minister was blocked. Twitter had then said that Shah's account was temporarily blocked due to an "inadvertent error" and the decision was reversed immediately. (The action involved removing Shah’s Twitter display picture in response to a "report from the copyright holder". When some members asked the basis of on which Twitter was removing contents and blocking accounts the company representatives said they want to create a "healthy platform".

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