Micro-blogging website, Twitter has once again shown a distorted map of India on its website. The map showed Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh detached from the country.
This distorted map was visible in the “Tweep Life” section, which showed Jammu and Kashmir as another country and Ladakh was shown as a part of China.
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According to the media reports, the central government has taken a step as soon as the matter came to light. The government has also issued a notice to Twitter.
Earlier on Friday, Twitter blocked the account of India’s Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for nearly an hour.
The distorted map came into light after a Twitter user noticed the wrong map. Later, the picture of the distorted map was circulating on the internet, is now viral on social media. For the first time, the post has been shared on 28 June 2021 at 10:38 am.
This is not for the first time that Twitter has shown the distorted map of India. In October 2020, it has displayed the Indian Territory Ladakh as the part of the Public Republic China (PRC).
At that time, the Indian government has issued a warning to the micro-blogging website over the misrepresentative of India’s map. The Indian government said that such attempts raise questions about its neutrality and fairness as an intermediary.
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Since the introduction of the new IT Act, there has been a constant dispute between the central government and Twitter.
Earlier this year, on February 25 the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) had given a three-month deadline to all social media and OTT platforms to comply with the new IT Rules 2021. This three-month deadline came to end on May 25.
Reportedly, under the new rules, an oversight committee would be formed. It would have ‘suo motu powers’ to call hearings if any complaints of violation of the code of ethics get registered.