After a protracted battle, together with authorized rows, billionaire Elon Musk closed his cope with Twitter Friday and formally took management of the platform. Amongst different issues, Musk has repeatedly confused upon “absolute free speech” as a part of the modifications he envisions for the micro-blogging web site. The takeover noticed a response by Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi, who mentioned that Twitter may change into the house which can “now not stifle the Opposition as a result of authorities strain”.
On Friday, Gandhi mentioned, “Congrats @elonmusk. I hope @Twitter will now act towards hate speech, truth examine extra robustly, and can now not stifle the opposition’s voice in India as a result of authorities strain”, and shared a graph that appeared to counsel that new followers of the MP have been “suppressed” between August 2021 and February 2022 – the interval between his “tweet a couple of rape sufferer” and a Wall Road Journal investigation “exposing” the platform. On this time, Gandhi claimed he had made 20 appeals to the platform and that “Twitter denied any fallacious doing”.
Congrats @elonmusk.
I hope @Twitter will now act towards hate speech, truth examine extra robustly, and can now not stifle the opposition’s voice in India as a result of authorities strain. pic.twitter.com/j2unZeYYj6
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) October 28, 2022
The Twitter account of Gandhi was ‘quickly’ locked on August 8 final 12 months, a day after {a photograph} he had posted with the household of the nine-year-old Dalit rape sufferer was taken down by the microblogging web site. The motion got here after the Nationwide Fee for Safety of Baby Rights (NCPCR) issued a discover to Twitter India, asking the social media platform to take away the tweet which revealed the identification of the rape sufferer.
“Based mostly on a criticism by the BJP, the Twitter account of Rahul Gandhi has been locked. As a substitute of giving justice to the 9-year-old Dalit woman, the BJP and the Narendra Modi authorities are far too preoccupied in intimidating Twitter as additionally illegally chasing Rahul Gandhi. Had PM Narendra Modi and Residence Minister Amit Shah used this time in making certain justice for the Dalit woman…Delhi would have been a safer place,” Congress communication division head Randeep Surjewala mentioned then.
Reacting to Gandhi’s tweet to Musk, BJP IT in-charge Amit Malviya mentioned, “Think about for Rahul Gandhi, his stagnant Twitter followers, is the largest situation plaguing his thoughts when frankly he ought to be specializing in his stagnant political profession and quickly sinking fortunes of the Congress social gathering”.
Think about for Rahul Gandhi, his stagnant Twitter followers, is the largest situation plaguing his thoughts when frankly he ought to be specializing in his stagnant political profession and quickly sinking fortunes of the Congress social gathering.
What subsequent?
Rush to Musk to get EVMs checked?
Develop up, Rahul. https://t.co/xsfh0T72X1
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) October 28, 2022
He added: “What subsequent? Rush to Musk to get EVMs checked? Develop up, Rahul”.
Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate responded to Malviya by tweeting: “Hey faux information peddler, do your self a favour and take a look at Mr Modi’s engagement charge – clearly bots aren’t retweeting?! And also you insecure weaklings, how about answering the Questions RG raises – jobs, inflation, poverty anybody?”
“Get actual – get out of your faux information manufacturing facility,” she added.