X takes down four political posts after Election Commission directives, but says it disagrees
The social media platform also called on the poll body ‘to publish all of its takedown orders going forward’.
Social media platform X on Tuesday said that it took down four posts by political parties and leaders for the rest of the Lok Sabha election period in compliance with orders from the Election Commission.
The social media platform, however, said that it disagreed with the action and that freedom of expression should extend to the posts.
X, formerly known as Twitter, was asked to take down posts by the Aam Aadmi Party, the YSR Congress party, Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and state Bharatiya Janata Party president Samrat Choudhary.
The microblogging platform published the takedown orders and said it had notified the users about its actions.
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The social media platform also called on the Election Commission “to publish all of its takedown orders going forward”.
The post by the Aam Aadmi Party featured a headline from the news website The Quint that read: “ED Arrested Aurobindo Pharma’s Director. 5 Days Later, It Bought Electoral Bonds”. The party had added a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the post, editing the image to redden his eyes, The Hindu reported.
Naidu had posted what appeared to be a document from the Central Bureau of Investigation. The Telugu Desam Party chief had said that the agency “seized a...
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