X blocks Reuters accounts in India

Main Reuters News Account, as well as Reuters World Account, was clearly accessible to X users in India since Saturday evening.

Reuters report Indian users who are trying to visit the @Routers account – who have 25 million followers – instead view a message that the account is “withdrawn in response to legal claims (India).”

However, a spokesman for the Indian government told Reuters that no government agency made the national claim.

A Reuters spokesman said the news agency “is working with X to resolve the issue.” Reuters also said that its social media team had earlier received a notice from X that the company had stopped the content at the request of the Government of India, though the notice did not specify any company or what content was being targeted.

The social media platform is previously known as Twitter (which recently) Another Illon Kasturi Organization is integrated with Jai) There is The criticism of the Government of India It claims that specific accounts and posts are blocked.

It is even Has sued the government in MarchClaims that a new website “uncontrollable sensorship of information in India” enables the content or block accounts of “countless” government officials illegally. The government has said that the website has only allowed companies to inform companies about harmful online materials.

Last year, the X also got involved in a prolonged battle with the Supreme Court of Brazil, which the service saw Stop operation in the countryIn Forbidden For More than a monthThe

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