Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Social media platform X on Tuesday mentioned that it had withheld sure posts in India containing political speech from elected politicians, political events, and candidates for workplace after the Election Fee ordered to takedown.
Howver, the X, owned by Elon Musk, expressed its disagreement with the orders issued by the election fee. “The Election Fee of India has issued takedown orders requiring X to behave on posts containing political speech shared from elected politicians, political events and candidates for workplace. In compliance with the orders, we now have withheld these posts for the rest of the election interval; nonetheless, we disagree with these actions and keep that freedom of expression ought to lengthen to those posts and political speech typically,” the X mentioned in an announcement.
“Now we have notified the affected customers and within the curiosity of transparency, we’re publishing the takedown orders right here. We name on the Election Fee to publish all of its takedown orders going ahead,” it added.
The Lok Sabha polls will probably be held in seven phases starting on April 19 and the counting of votes will happen on June 4 for the world’s largest election train through which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will bid for a 3rd consecutive time period. Voting within the different phases will probably be held on April 26, Could 7, Could 13, Could 20, Could 25 and June 1.
(With Reuters enter)
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