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NATION February 12, 2021 | The Indian Eye 10

is a desi app called Koo

the real winner in govt’s

tussle with twitter?

The co-founder of the Indian microblogging app says that the platform, which is

aiming to become an alternative to Twitter, is completely apolitical

Our Bureau rules. our principles in India,” it said. ly allows fake, unverified, and
The company informed that It further said that they sep- automated bot accounts to be
New Delhi they took steps to reduce the arately withheld a portion of the operated on its platform, raises

n response to the ‘’legal re- visibility of the hashtags con- accounts identified in the block- doubts about its commitment to
quests’’ from the Central taining harmful content, which ing orders under our ‘’Country transparency and healthy con-
Igovernment, Twitter on included prohibiting them from Withheld Content’’ policy with- versation on the platform.
Wednesday informed that it trending on Twitter. “Following in India only. This meeting took place in
has taken multiple enforcement the reports of violence in recent Earlier, the Central govern- view of the order issued by the
actions -- including permanent weeks, we are sharing a granular ment has conveyed to Twitter of- Centre directing Twitter to re-
suspension of over 500 accounts update on our proactive efforts ficials that the manner in which move tweets and accounts us-
for clear violations of Twitter’s to enforce our rules and defend the social media giant official- Continued on next page... >>

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