The Government of Pakistan’s official Twitter account is with held in India.
Indian Journalist Suhasini Haider who is currently covering the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) Council of Heads of State (CHS) Summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, tweeted a picture of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Vladimir Putin of Russia having a conversation. Government of Pakistan’s Twitter handle originally shared the picture.
Moments after Haider tweeted, one of her followers pointed out that her quoted tweet can’t be seen in India as there is a chance it has been withheld in India.
On September 13, Twitter’s former security chief, Peiter Zatko, told a US Senate hearing that the Indian government forced the micro blogging website to hire two persons who were likely “government agents” and had access to sensitive user data. Zatko had alleged in a complaint filed in August that Twitter had violated it’s agreement with users by giving access to their data to a government agent.
Zatko also told the hearing that it was his belief that the government agent was placed at Twitter by the BJP government to asses if the social media giant would be willing to agree with censorship demands.
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