India Withholds Political Posts After Election Commission’s Order

Elon Musk-owned X, a social media platform, announced on Tuesday that it had withheld some posts in India containing political speech from elected politicians, political parties, and candidates for office as per the orders of the country’s election commission. The platform expressed its disagreement with the election commission’s orders and called on the commission to publish all of its takedown orders going forward.

India, with nearly a billion eligible voters, is gearing up for the world’s largest electoral exercise on Friday. *(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.

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