{"id":32367,"date":"2021-05-23T00:17:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T15:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/22\/india-orders-removal-of-content-referring-to-indian-variant"},"modified":"2021-05-23T00:17:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T15:17:34","slug":"india-orders-removal-of-content-referring-to-indian-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32367","title":{"rendered":"India orders removal of content referring to \u2018Indian variant\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government says \u2018false\u2019 coronavirus claim is circulating on social media and should be taken down<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India\u2019s government has ordered social media platforms to take down content that refers to the \u201cIndian variant\u201d of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The B.1.617.1 (previously called B.1.617) variant was first detected in India last year and has been blamed for much of the devastating Covid-19 wave that has battered south Asian nations in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/22\/india-orders-removal-of-content-referring-to-indian-variant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government says \u2018false\u2019 coronavirus claim is circulating on social media and should be taken downCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia\u2019s government has ordered social media platforms to take down content that refers to the \u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"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":[1066,62,235,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-social-media","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\/32367","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\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32368,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32367\/revisions\/32368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}