Content Restrictions:
- Indian Central Government ordered Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to remove dozens of social media posts, and hashtags that were critical of the central government, and many of the social media companies complied
- The posts, with messages calling the Prime Minister of India’s covid handling ‘mismanagement’, were considered by the government to “spread fake or misleading information”
- When removing the content Facebook, and other social media websites, pointed toward local country laws that justify the removal of content.
Photo Citations
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prime_Minister,Shri_Narendra_Modi,_in_New_Delhi_on_August_08,_2019(cropped).jpg
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