Elon Musk’s Twitter Censored Tweets On Behalf of the Indian Government
The BBC released a documentary examining Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s involvement with a riot that killed over 1,000 people, most of them Muslims. The documentary, called India: The Modi Question, concludes that the riots had the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing. Modi is often described as an ethnonationalist. Many analysts say the government is undermining its own constitutional commitments to protect Muslim and Christian Minorities. A Modi government official described the documentary as “hostile propaganda and anti-India garbage.”
The Indian government did not like the movie, and asked Twitter to block links to the documentary. Twitter obliged. Actor John Cusack tweeted a link to the series, and said he received a notice that his account was now banned in India as a result. Musk tweeted that he was not aware of his own company’s action against the documentary, and said “It is not possible for me to fix every aspect of Twitter worldwide overnight.”
