X turns ex over ‘blocking order’: Platform cries ‘press censorship’, Modi government denies

Elon Musk-owned social media platform X and the Narendra Modi government locked horns on Tuesday over an alleged official order of July 3 to block over 2,000 accounts, including that of the Reuters news agency.

While the Union ministry of electronics and information technology contested X’s claim of having issued any such order, the microblogging site’s global government affairs team urged affected users to pursue legal remedies, saying its own abilities to do so were limited by Indian law.