{"id":28136,"date":"2021-02-09T19:08:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/twitter-concerned-for-staff-in-india-after-row-over-account-removals"},"modified":"2021-02-09T19:08:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T10:08:14","slug":"twitter-concerned-for-staff-in-india-after-row-over-account-removals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28136","title":{"rendered":"Twitter concerned for staff in India after row over account removals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company refused government request to remove more than 1,000 accounts linked to farmer protests<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has expressed concern for the safety of its employees in India after the company\u2019s refusal to comply with a demand from the Indian government to remove more than 1,000 accounts connected to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/26\/violent-clashes-as-indian-farmers-storm-delhis-red-fort\">farmer protests<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Twitter said it had reached out to the Indian government for a \u201cformal dialogue\u201d after the ministry of information and technology requested the removal of 1,178 listed Twitter handles it alleged were illicitly connected to Pakistan or the Sikh separatist Khalistan movement and spreading propaganda and misinformation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/twitter-concerned-for-staff-in-india-after-row-over-account-removals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company refused government request to remove more than 1,000 accounts linked to farmer protestsTwitter has expressed concern for the safety of its employees in India after the company\u2019s refusal to comply with a demand from the Indian government to remo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,80,61,350,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-twitter","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28138,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28136\/revisions\/28138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}