{"id":31425,"date":"2021-04-26T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/26\/twitter-under-fire-over-deletion-of-critical-covid-tweets-in-india"},"modified":"2021-04-26T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:17:08","slug":"twitter-under-fire-over-deletion-of-critical-covid-tweets-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31425","title":{"rendered":"Twitter under fire over deletion of critical Covid tweets in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers and rights activists say removals risk people\u2019s health and harms freedom of speech<\/p>\n<p>The removal of dozens of tweets seen to be critical of the Indian government\u2019s handling of the coronavirus pandemic is putting people\u2019s health at risk and quashing dissent, according to lawmakers and human rights activists.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter withheld some tweets after a legal request by the Indian government, a company spokeswoman told Reuters on Saturday. These included tweets from a lawmaker, a minister in the state of West Bengal, and a filmmaker.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/26\/twitter-under-fire-over-deletion-of-critical-covid-tweets-in-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers and rights activists say removals risk people\u2019s health and harms freedom of speechThe removal of dozens of tweets seen to be critical of the Indian government\u2019s handling of the coronavirus pandemic is putting people\u2019s health at risk and quash&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[1066,62,914,351,61,58,350,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-internet","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-twitter","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31425","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31439,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31425\/revisions\/31439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}