With 24 million users, India is Twitter’s third-largest market after the U.S. and Japan. Fears are growing that Elon Musk's vision for the platform could open the floodgates to misinformation and hate speech in the country.
in India cut deeply into some of Twitter’s most critical teams, including those dealing with government information requests and content moderation.last month, United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk urged Musk to make human rights central to his management, noting the pressure that Twitter and other social media platforms have come under from governments around the world over freedom of expression.
“For the longest time, South Asian countries have been ignored in terms of policy, content moderation strength and language support,” Sinha told NBC News. A contract worker based in San Francisco, she was among the thousands of Twitter employees who discovered they had been laid off this month when they were unceremoniously locked out of their email and Slack accounts.
Even before the new rules came into effect last year, police raided Twitter’s offices in Delhi and Gurgaon after the company tagged a BJP spokesperson’s tweet asTwitter users have also been arrested over their posts, including a state lawmaker who was critical of Modi. Zubair, the Alt News co-founder, was arrested in June over a 2018 tweet that police said hurt religious harmony.
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