New Delhi: The Union government has objected to Twitter using ‘manipulated media’ tag for tweets on an alleged Congress toolkit used to target the Centre over its Covid-19 handling.
A day after Twitter flagged BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra’s tweet on Congress’ alleged ‘toolkit’ as manipulated media, the Union Government has lodged a strong protest with the social media platform against its move.
In a ‘strong communication’ to Twitter’s global team, the Ministry of Electronics and IT has registered an objection to the use of ‘manipulated media’ tag on tweets made by Indian political leaders with reference to the ‘toolkit’.
The Union Ministry has asked Twitter to remove the ‘manipulated Media’ tags affixed to certain tweets in the interests of ‘fairness and equity’.
“The Ministry has termed such unilateral action by Twitter as an effort to influence the fair investigation process and a clear overreach, which is totally unwarranted… The action not only dilutes the credibility of Twitter as a neutral and unbiased platform facilitating exchange of views by the users but also puts a question mark on the status of Twitter as intermediary,” the Centre said.