Twitter faces more heat as FIRs registered for depicting distorted India map, allowing child sexual abuse material
  • 3 years ago
In more trouble for Twitter, two FIRs were lodged in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh against senior officials of its India office over the social media giant putting up a distorted map of the country.

The Delhi Police also said it has registered a case against Twitter on a complaint by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) for allegedly allowing access to child sexual abuse material on the social media platform.

Though Twitter was silent on the issue of the distorted India map, which it had removed on Monday after an uproar, its spokesperson said that the company has a zero-tolerance policy for child sexual exploitation and will work with law enforcement and NGO partners in India to tackle the issue.

It is the latest in a series of run-ins between Twitter and Indian authorities. While the social media giant is mired in a row with the central government over not following the new IT rules, Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari was recently summoned by Ghaziabad police in UP in a probe into an objectionable video posted in connection with an assault on an elderly Muslim man.
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