Twitter Fights India’s Order Compelling the Company to Block Some Tweets

Twitter Inc. mentioned Tuesday it has filed a authorized problem in opposition to the Indian authorities’s orders that the social-media firm block some customers’ accounts and particular person tweets in the nation, ramping up a battle over on-line speech between U.S. tech giants and New Delhi.

In current weeks, Twitter rendered unviewable in India tweets from a outstanding Indian journalist and the founding father of a preferred fact-checking web site, in accordance to a public database of removing requests for on-line materials. The two between them have greater than two million followers.