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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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