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New Delhi, Feb 01: Twitter on Monday “withheld” multiple accounts on its social media platform with the #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide hashtag, and making “fake, intimidatory and provocative tweets on Saturday”.
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These include accounts of Kisan Ekta Morcha and BKU Ekta Urgahan that have thousands of followers and have been actively involved in the ongoing protests.
The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) directed Twitter to block around 250 tweets/Twitter accounts that were making ”fake, intimidatory and provocative tweets” on January 30 with hashtags accusing the Modi government of planning farmers ”genocide” without any further substantiation.
This blocking was done at…
