Late last month, massive farmer protests erupted in India in what is considered one of the biggest domestic challenges facing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he kicks off 2021. India warned Twitter employees that they would face prison sentences after it was discovered that the social media platform Twitter had facilitated nationwide protests in India.
In a notice sent to Twitter, India’s IT ministry said that Twitter’s algorithmic rules had facilitated protests in India and that an outbreak of violence had seriously affected public order in the country, the National File, a conservative news site, reported on Sept. 9. India issued a warning that Twitter employees would be fined or jailed for seven years.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been outspoken in his personal Twitter account about his support for the Indian farmers’ protests, and has also liked anti-Indian government tweets by left-media columnist Karen Attiah of The Washington Post and American pop star Rihanna. Rihanna’s anti-Indian government tweets.
“Rihanna has the Indian government quaking in its boots.” Attiah had said.
Last week, Rihanna retweeted a CNN article about the Indian government suspending the network in the New Delhi area in response to the protests, writing, “Why can’t we talk about this?”
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg later discovered, by accident, that Rihanna’s tweet had been completely scripted. Earlier, Thunberg had posted a “toolkit” for activists that included a tweet template identical to the one Rihanna had shared. Tomberg then took down the tweet, deleted the template, and posted a new toolkit.
Subsequently, an Indian investigation revealed that the person behind the toolkit was a Canadian-based activist group backed by the far-left American billionaire George Soros, the Poetic Justice Foundation).
The Indian government has questioned Twitter’s position on neutrality in light of Dorsey’s blatant interference in India’s internal affairs.
“If the founder of Twitter is openly taking sides, it does raise questions about the neutrality of the platform and how it is handling India’s demands related to the protests.” An Indian government official told The Times of India.
In 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been shadow-banned from the Twitter platform, prompting accusations from Modi supporters who complained that Modi’s tweets would not appear in their Twitter newsletters.
Global radicals have criticized Modi’s government for promoting conservative nationalist views and opposing his emphasis on patriotism, sovereignty, traditional values and economic revival.
Modi, along with former U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been designated by the Soros group as the main target of its campaign.
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