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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives astatine the White House to conscionable with U.S. President Donald Trump connected Feb. 13, 2025 successful Washington, DC.
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Elon Musk's X said Tuesday that the Indian authorities ordered the institution to artifact 2,355 accounts, including Reuters, successful the country.
"The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology demanded contiguous action- wrong 1 hour- without providing justification, and required the accounts to stay blocked until further notice," X's planetary authorities affairs relationship posted.
The main Reuters account, on with ReutersWorld, was blocked Saturday for users successful India, the quality work said. Screenshots showed the connection "Account withheld @Reuters has been withheld successful IN successful effect to a ineligible demand."
The Indian government's Press Information Bureau told Reuters that nary authorities bureau had required blocking the relationship and said it was moving with X to resoluteness the issue. The accounts were restored connected Sunday.
The connection by X connected Tuesday is the latest improvement successful an ongoing censorship ineligible conflict betwixt Musk's societal media tract and the Indian authorities led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
X sued Modi's authorities successful March, accusing India's IT ministry of unlawfully expanding online censorship to let the easier removal of content.
Musk often refers to himself arsenic a escaped code absolutist and has said his takeover of Twitter was partially owed to what helium viewed arsenic the unfair regularisation of conservative views and voices.
The Tesla CEO swiftly made changes to moderation aft helium acquired the site, which helium aboriginal renamed to X.
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