New Delhi: In a significant development, Twitter has removed the distorted map of India from its website after the microblogging platform received a lot of criticism over the same.
Twitter sparked another controversy as its website showed a distorted map of India on the careers section on its website. The map that appears on the ‘Tweep Life’ section shows Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as separate from India.
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Sources had revealed that the central government plans to issue a strict notice to Twitter, stating that action will be taken against the microblogging platform to remove the malformed map.
This is not the first time that social media platforms have shown a wrong map of India. In November 2020, National Security Analyst Nitin A Gokhale found that Twitter had labeled the Indian territory of Leh in Ladakh as part of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Gokhale, the founder of Strat News Global, had marked his place as ‘Hall of Fame Leh’. However, the microblogging platform featured the region as part of the PRC. The screengrab of the video read, “Nitin A Gokhale was live. Jammu and Kashmir, People’s Republic of China. “
The Indian government issued a warning to CEO Jack Dorsey over the misrepresentation of the Indian map, and Twitter India later issued an apology and removed the images and related tweets.
Twitter is already at loggerheads with the Indian government over compliance with the new IT regulations.
Twitter lost legal protection in India when the government removed it from its intermediary status. This means that Twitter will not be treated as a platform hosting people’s tweets, but it will be editorially responsible for the content – which makes it face action in the case of offensive content posted on its platform. responsible for.
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