Twitter will now hope to take action against hate speech, stronger fact-checkers: Rahul Gandhi
Former Parliament Speaker Rahul Gandhi hopes on Friday that Twitter will act against hate speech, check facts more forcefully and not muffle the voices of the opposition in India, shortly after the billionaire Elon Musk took over the social media giant and fired four of its top executives. .
Gandhi’s Twitter The handle was temporarily locked after he shared a picture of a rape victim and received a notification from the National Committee for the Protection of Children’s Rights (NCPCR). He did not use his account on the microblogging site for a while after that. The Congress leader has frequently used his Twitter handle to attack the Narendra Modi government.
Gandhi also shared a chart of handle “manipulation” on his Twitter.
It highlights how, between August 2021 and February 2022, new followers of the Congress leader were persecuted. Gandhi claims that he has made 20 appeals to Twitter, even as the social media giant denies any wrongdoing.
The chart also shows that from January 2021, Gandhi’s Twitter account saw an increase in the number of new followers and after February 2022 it started to increase again.
Musk close the door deal to acquire Twitter and tweet, “The bird is free”, shortly after completing the takeover of the massive $44 billion website (nearly Rs 3,62,400. Vijaya Gadde.
Citing people with knowledge of the situation, a news release said Musk “has begun cleaning the house on Twitter with the direction of at least four top executives.”
In addition to Agrawal and Gadde, Twitter’s chief financial officer Ned Segal and general counsel Sean Edgett were also fired.
“At least one of the fired executives was escorted out of Twitter’s offices,” the report said.
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