Leaders React Strongly As Jack Dorsey Claims India 'Pressurised' Twitter During Farmers’ Protest

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has claimed the Indian government pressurised the micro-blogging platform during the farmers' protest. The Centre has rubbished the claims.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has said that the Indian government pressurised the micro-blogging platform to ‘block’ many accounts during farmer protests and even threatened to close its offices, and raid the homes of employees if Twitter did not comply. Here is how leaders are reacting to this:

In an interview with a YouTube news channel Breaking Points, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said that Twitter received many requests to block accounts covering farmers’ protests, and journalists critical of the government. (Source: Getty)

Union Minister for Electronics and Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar reacted to Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey's statement and said his comments are an outright lie. Chandrasekhar said Twitter is a company that believed it was not necessary for it to comply with Indian laws. (Source: ANI)