The main Reuters News Account, as well as Reuters World Account, is clearly inaccessible to X users in India since Saturday evening.
Reuters report He is trying to look at Indian users @REUTERS account – who have 25 million followers – instead see a message that the account has been stopped in (India) in response to legal demand (India). “
However, an Indian government spokesperson told Reuters that no government agency has made such a demand.
A spokesperson of the Reuters said that the news agency “is working with X to resolve the matter.” Reuters also say that its social media team received a notification from X earlier in May, stating that the company was stopping the material at the Government of India request, although the notification did not say which agency had requested or which materials were being targeted.
Social media platform was previously known as Twitter (which recently) Merged with another Elon Musk Company, XAI) Is Criticized the Government of India There is a demand that it blocks some accounts and positions.
Even Case filed against government in MarchClaiming that a new website “countless” the unrestrained censorship of information in India illegally allows public authorities to enable public authorities to reduce materials or block accounts. The government said that the website only allowed it to inform companies about harmful online materials.
Last year, X was also engaged in a long battle with the Supreme Court of Brazil, which saw the service Stop operations in the countryThen Be restricted For more than a month,
Techcrunch has reached X for comment.
