Govt tells court it will block Rana Ayyub’s tweets; flags X’s failure to act

NEW DELHI: Just days after the Delhi High Court took strong exception to tweets posted by journalist Rana Ayyub between 2013 and 2017 on Hindu deities and figures associated with the Hindutva ideology, the Centre on Friday informed the court that steps had been initiated as per law to block certain “derogatory” and communally sensitive posts.

The Central government further noted that X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, was “liable to lose its safe harbour protection in India” because it had failed to act against the scribe’s posts targeting Hindu deities and Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar.