In connection with the violence that broke out in Delhi, Twitter has suspended over 550 accounts on Wednesday.
As per report by Twitter spokesperson, the platform has also labelled tweets which were found to be in violation of its “synthetic and manipulated media policy.”
The spokesperson also said, “We have taken strong enforcement action to protect the conversation on the service from attempts to incite violence, abuse, and threats that could trigger the risk of offline harm by blocking certain terms that violate our rules for trends.”
According to the spokesperson they were monitoring the situation closely and remain vigilant, and strongly encourage those on the service to report anything they believe is in violation of the rules.
Several public and private properties were damaged in acts of vandalism by the mob. A total of 22 FIRs have been registered regarding the violence, in which over 300 police personnel were injured.
Delhi Police has detained 200 people in connection with the violence.
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