X Blocks Reuters Accounts for India

The main Reuters news accounts and the Reuters world accounts appear to be inaccessible to Indian X users from Saturday evening.

Reuters reports Instead, Indian users looking to view @Reuters accounts with 25 million followers are seeing the message that their accounts are “withheld by (India) in response to legal demand.”

However, a spokesman for the Indian government told Reuters that the agency had not made such a request.

A Reuters spokesperson said the news agency is “working with X to resolve this issue.” Reuters also says the social media team previously received notifications from X in May. The notice did not specify which agencies made the request or which content was targeted, but the company said it had withheld content at the request of the Indian government.

Social media platforms previously known as Twitter (recently Merger with another Elon Musk company Zai) I have it Criticized the Indian government Requests that certain accounts and posts be blocked.

That too He sued the government in Marchthe new website claims to allow “unlimited censorship of information in India” by allowing “countless” civil servants to delete or block content. The government said the website only allowed businesses to notify them of harmful online content.

Last year, X also engaged in a long-term battle with Brazil’s Supreme Court. Domestic business will be closedafter that It is prohibited for Over a month.

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