Elon Musk caves under pressure from India to remove a controversial BBC documentary criticizing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
, as officials called for the social media platforms to take action against what they considered a “propaganda piece.”condemned
the BBC documentary in a series of Twitter posts on Jan. 21, calling the film “hostile propaganda and anti-India garbage, disguised as ‘documentary’.” He said that Twitter and YouTube links sharing the documentary had been “blocked under India’s sovereign laws and rules.” Twitter users in India claimed that links they shared to the documentary were later removed and replaced with a legal noticed at the time of Gupta’s statements, according to the report.
“The government has sent hundreds of requests to different social media platforms, especially YouTube and Twitter, to take down the posts that share snippets or links to the documentary,” Indian journalist Raqib Hameed Naik said to. “And shamefully, the companies are complying with their demands and have taken down numerous videos and posts.”
The BBC doc take-down follows a troubling pattern of link banning on Twitter, which was acquired last year by
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