New Delhi: Congressman Rahul Gandhi has written to Twitter that the microblogging platform limits its ability to find new followers under pressure from the Indian government, on the grounds that the following things almost froze since their account briefly locked on August 2021.
Rahul wrote to CEO Twitter Parag Agrawal on December 27, accusing the platform may work under pressure from the MOD government.
In accordance with the details given to Twitter, MP Congress members show that he received new followers at a rate of more than 2.3 lakh per month, which even rose to 6.5 lakh in certain months.
However, since August 2021, his new follower account has dropped to around 2,500 per month and the following total of 19.5 million still freezes during this period.
Rahul twitter account crashed into controversy in August 2021 when he tweeted a picture of a family of rape victims in Delhi.
After complaints from BJP members, Twitter holds that Rahul has violated the law by posting the image and his account is locked for about eight days.
While the account was not frozen later, Congress said that since it witnessed serious obstacles in their form of ability to increase the influence on the platform that had become the main instrument in public communication and political campaign.
“You have enormous responsibility to ensure that Twitter is not actively helpful in the growth of authoritarianism in India,” Rahul wrote to Agrawal.
He accused that there was a complete arrest of traditional media, and social media became more important in increasing community problems and holding the government to take into account.
“The ideological battle between liberal democracy and authoritarianism throughout the world is being formed on social media platforms.
This places great responsibility for those who are at the top of the company like Twitter,” he wrote.
Under the government pressure, Twitter limits my followers: Rahul Gandhi
