: Twitter website shows Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh outside India’s map #IndiaNEWS Social media platform Twitter courted a new controversy on Monday after a page on its website showed the Union Territories

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Twitter website shows Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh outside India’s map #IndiaNEWS
Social media platform Twitter courted a new controversy on Monday after a page on its website showed the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as separate from India’s map. The map appears on the career section of the Twitter website under the header “Tweep Life�. The error on Twitter’s website appeared amid a tussle between the company and the Centre on the new information technology rules.Uttar Pradesh Police have also named Twitter in a first information report for not removing posts about the assault of an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad district on June 5. The company has been booked for “intent to a riot, promoting enmity and criminal conspiracy�. The Ghaziabad Police have sent a legal notice to Twitter India Managing Director Manish Maheshwari in the case. However, the Karnataka High Court has barred Uttar Pradesh Police from taking any coercive action against him.The new information technology rules – which were announced in February and became effective in May – are framed to regulate social media companies, streaming and digital news content, virtually bringing them, for the first time, under the ambit of government supervision.In May, the government had also criticised Twitter’s decision to label a tweet by Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Sambit Patra as “manipulated media�. Then, On June 5, Twitter had briefly removed...Read more

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