NEW DELHI, June 22, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Just two weeks after being banned in Nigeria, Twitter faces new legal troubles in India that threaten the company’s growth in another key market.
Police last week summoned top Twitter officials in India, saying that the Big Tech company did not do enough to stop the spread of an allegedly misleading viral video. The Economic Times reported on Monday that a police report named Twitter, Inc. and Twitter India in reference to spreading the video, which authorities claimed was “provocation for rioting.”
The viral clip featured what appeared to be multiple Hindu men beating a Muslim man in the city of Ghaziabad. Social media posts indicated that the attack was religiously motivated, though police said that those claims were fake and purposefully divisive. Twitter restricted access to around 50 tweets in connection with the incident, The Economic Times said.
“Due to the malicious tweet published on the Twitter platform, a tense atmosphere was created in society and enmity increased between different groups in the country, threatening social harmony,” the notice to Twitter from Ghaziabad police read. “It was tweeted by Ghaziabad police from its official Twitter platform that the news in question is fake
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