Elon Musk is at it again. Officials from India’s ruling right-wing party say Twitter complied with the India government’s demands to remove a documentary critical of the regime.
This isn’t the first time Musk has silenced journalists on Twitter.
Only a little over a month ago, he suspended the accounts of several journalists who had covered Twitter critically — reporting for CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Intercept, and more — under flimsy pretenses.
Now, new reporting reveals that Twitter agreed to censor access to a BBC documentary critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in a genocidal massacre in the Indian state of Gujarat.
At the request of Kanchan Gupta, the senior adviser at the Indian government’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting who called the documentary “hostile propaganda and anti-India garbage,” Twitter blocked all links to the film.
Twitter went further to also specifically remove posts by members of Parliament from the opposition All India Trinamool Congress party and even blocked Indian audiences from seeing posts by actor John Cusack that link to the documentary.
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