He Reuters The handles of the X accounts of the news agency were “retained” in India “in response to a legal demand,” Indian Outlet The impression reported on Sunday.
Accounts for both Reuters and Reuters World They were inaccessible in India; However, users could still access another 30 Reuters accounts, The impression aggregate. He Reuters The news website is also accessible.
X users in India have published screenshots that show that they cannot access the accounts of the news agency.
Reuters He has not yet issued a statement, while the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of India (Meity) said India today that no request was given to restrict the accounts.
“There is no requirement of the Indian government to retain the Reuters drive. We are working continuously with X to solve the problem, ”said an official ministry spokesman for Outlet India today.
The impression He informed that in previous cases of X restrict access to accounts in India due to legal requirements, the platform issued statements through its management of global government affairs.
The account has not yet issued a statement about the restriction.
This is not the first time that India blocks accounts on the platform, previously known as Twitter.
According to an Instagram publication by Hindustan’s timesThe accounts were retained according to the orders issued in the middle of the Sindoor operation, when India launched missiles in places in Pakistan in May.
“According to the reports, the Center (Government) has responded to the Social Media X platform that blocks the news agency account Reuters In India, saying that it is an error by the company owned by Elon Musk, “he wrote the exit in the subtitle of the post.
According The impressionX issued a statement on May 8, saying that he had “received executive orders from the Indian government” to “block more than 8,000 accounts in India, subject to possible sanctions, including significant fines and the imprisonment of the company’s local employees.”
“In most cases, the Indian government has not specified what positions of an account the local laws of India have violated. For a significant number of accounts, we do not receive any evidence or justification to block the accounts,” X wrote.
Although X declared that I did not agree with the demands of New Delhi, the platform held access to the account only within India.
