Twitter Grilled On Blocking Amit Shah Account At Parliamentary Panel Meet

NEW DELHI: Twitter India officials on Thursday faced a barrage of questions from members of the parliamentary standing committee on information technology over the social media platform’s decision to temporarily block home minister Amit Shah’s Twitter account in November last year.

While Twitter had then claimed the episode was an “inadvertent error”, its officials told the Shashi Tharoor-headed House panel that the account had to be blocked on account of “copyright issues” over a picture that had been posted.

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, sources said, asked how Twitter could refer to itself as a “healthy social media platform” when its ‘Fact Checker’ failed to identify the home minister and blocked his account. Twitter had also offended India’s sovereignty by depicting an incorrect map of India, which showed Leh as a part of Chinese territory.