Microblogging site Twitter on Wednesday has suspended over 550 Twitter accounts amidst the unrest that erupted in New Delhi during the farmers’ tractor parade on Republic Day.
The suspension of account was taken against the users engaged in "spam and platform manipulation", said the spokesperson from Twitter.
"We have taken strong enforcement action to protect the conversation on the service from attempts to incite violence, abuse and threats that could trigger the risk of offline harm by blocking certain terms that violate our rules for trends," the spokesperson said.
"Using a combination of technology and human review, Twitter worked at scale and took action on hundreds of accounts and Tweets that have violated the Twitter Rules, and suspended more than 550 accounts engaged in spam and platform manipulation,” he added.
The Twitter spokesperson said that they have also applied labels to Tweets that were found to violate synthetic and manipulated media policy.
“We are monitoring the situation closely and remain vigilant, and strongly encourage those on the service to report anything they believe violates Twitter spokesperson.
On Republic Day, hundreds of farmers deviated from the pre-planned route of their tractor rally and engaged in violent clashes with the Delhi Police at ITO before making their way to the Red Fort and the protesters even hoisted a Nishan Sahib, the holy Sikh flag, on a pole mast.
The protesting farmers went on a rampage destroying private and public properties.
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22 FIRs have been registered regarding the violence, in which over 300 police personnel were injured.
Meanwhile, two farmers organisations have stepped back from the farmer's protest, saying they have nothing to do with the violence and such things are “unacceptable”.
Farmers have been protesting on the different borders of the national capital since November 26 last year against the three newly enacted farm laws - Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.