India police visit Twitter office after it tagged pro-Modi posts


Delhi police personnel sit outside a gate of Twitter India’s office at Crescent building in New Delhi, as police served a notice at Twitter's offices over flagged governments tweets as ‘manipulated media’ a day before. — AFP

Police visited Twitter Inc’s empty offices in India on May 24 following the company’s May 21 decision to label multiple tweets from accounts linked to the country’s ruling party as manipulated media.

The unexpected visit happened late Monday after Twitter labelled multiple tweets for violating its synthetic and manipulated media policy, a person familiar with the matter confirmed. The policy forbids users from sharing things that “deceptively promote synthetic or manipulated media that are likely to cause harm”.

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