Indian government threatened to shut down Twitter and raid employees’ homes during farmers’ protest: Jack Dorsey
New Delhi: Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey has claimed that the social media platform faced government pressure and threats of closure during the farmers’ agitation in the country.
Union Minister Rajiv Chandrasekhar has termed his statement as false. Rejecting Dorsey’s claims, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Chandra Shekhar tweeted that during Dorsey’s time the Twitter administration had a hard time accepting the sovereignty of Indian law.
No one went to jail and Twitter was shut down. Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, alleged that the Indian government put pressure on Twitter during the farmers’ protests in the country and threatened to shut down Twitter in India, raid the homes of employees if the government did not obey.