Centre prompts, Twitter blocks accounts using farmer genocide hashtag

Tuesday, 2 February 2021Newsdesk

Twitter on Monday blocked nearly 250 accounts and tweets after the Narendra Modi government asked it to act against those using the #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide hashtag and posting “fake, intimidatory and provocative” material on its site.

New Delhi, 02 February 2021

As per news report of The Telegraph, government sources said the directive had gone out from the ministry of electronics and IT on a request from the home ministry and law-enforcement agencies to “prevent any escalation of law and order in view of the ongoing farmer agitation”. The blocked accounts include the official handle of the Kisan Ekta Morcha, the one-stop source of information set up by the protesting farmers, several accounts created to propagate the farmers’ version in the face of the “godi (lapdog) media’s biased coverage”, and the account of The Caravan magazine.

Source - telegraphindia.com