Twitter on Thursday said that it will add labels to identify more state-affiliated accounts, including the personal accounts of world leaders, to give users more context for geopolitical conversations on the platform. The company said it would expand the move to many countries, including the Group of Seven, but India did not figure in the list.
Twitter and India are locked in a row after the social media company refused to fully comply with the government order to remove over 1,100 accounts. The government claimed the said accounts were using provocative hashtags to spread misinformation about the farmers’ protests against the agriculture laws.
But Twitter said these demands of the government were inconsistent with the Indian law. It refused to outright ban the handles, but imposed restrictions on some of them within India. The social media platform also refused to remove accounts of news organisations, journalists, activists and politicians, citing its “principles of…