India has asked Twitter to remove as many as 1,178 Pakistani-Khalistani accounts that are spreading misinformation in the backdrop of the farmers’ protests. The list was shared on February 4, and Twitter is yet to comply with the order.
Sources quoted by WION said, “Many of these accounts were also automated bots that were used for sharing and amplifying misinformation and provocative contents on farmers protests.”
It is the second time in the last two weeks that the government has pointed out the issues related to certain accounts. On January 31 also, the Electronics and IT ministry had sent a list of 257 accounts which the home ministry had listed for trying to trend the hashtag genocide vis-a-vis the protests. While Twitter had acted on them by withholding them, hours later it unblocked them. An irked IT ministry had sent another notice to the social media giant which is yet to be implemented.
In a notice issued late on February 2, the ministry of electronics and…