{"id":32439,"date":"2021-05-25T10:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T01:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/25\/india-police-twitter-offices-bjp-tweet-flagged-manipulated-media"},"modified":"2021-05-25T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T01:05:49","slug":"india-police-visit-twitter-offices-after-bjp-tweet-flagged-as-manipulated-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32439","title":{"rendered":"India police visit Twitter offices after BJP tweet flagged as manipulated media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move in Delhi comes after tweet by spokesperson of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party was tagged as \u2018manipulated media\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Police in India\u2019s capital served a notice at Twitter\u2019s offices late on Monday, seeking information for a complaint about why a tweet by the spokesperson of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party was tagged as \u201cmanipulated media\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions have been high between the Indian government and the US social media giant after Twitter this year reversed its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/02\/twitter-suspends-hundreds-of-indian-accounts-after-government-demand\">blocking of a number of accounts related to farmers\u2019 protests<\/a> near Delhi following a request from authorities. The government claimed the posts were aiming to incite violence. Twitter said it believed the directives were not in line with Indian laws.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/25\/india-police-twitter-offices-bjp-tweet-flagged-manipulated-media\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move in Delhi comes after tweet by spokesperson of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party was tagged as \u2018manipulated media\u2019Police in India\u2019s capital served a notice at Twitter\u2019s offices late on Monday, seeking information for a complaint about why a tweet &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[1066,62,235,61,350,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-social-media","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\/32439","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32440,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32439\/revisions\/32440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}