India
Twitter agrees to censor for India
Twitter values market share over free speech.
India yanks Twitter’s liability protection after it fails to comply with controversial social media law
The government and the tech titan continue their online censorship battle.
Twitter and India go to war
Each accuses the other of violating free speech.
India orders social platforms to censor references to “Indian variant”
India is increasingly making demands of social media platforms.
India demands Twitter stop labeling lawmakers’ tweets as “manipulated media”
The government wants Twitter to be “neutral and unbiased.”
Instagram’s censorship of the India coronavirus saga is a major threat to free speech
Instagram’s censorship is accused of putting lives at risk.
Facebook’s Oversight Board overturns Facebook’s censorship in India
But Facebook refused to say if the government had asked Facebook to censor.
Facebook says it was a “mistake” to censor criticism of India’s government
It didn’t say how the censorship happened or why.
Twitter censors on behalf of the Indian government
Twitter deleted criticism.
India is using facial recognition to identify vaccination recipients
The move is part of the controversial national ID scheme.
Facebook inserts itself into India’s elections
Facebook is playing speech police.
Co-author of activist toolkit arrested in India after it was accidentally revealed by Greta Thunberg
Thunberg wasn’t supposed to share that she was using the toolkit.