Rahul Gandhi says dropping Twitter followers, corporation says 0 tolerance for manipulation

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Rahul Gandhi says dropping Twitter followers, corporation says 0 tolerance for manipulation

 In a letter to Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal, Rahul Gandhi stated he have been discreetly knowledgeable via way of means of the company`s personnel in India that they have been beneathneath monstrous strain via way of means of the authorities to silence his voice. Twitter, however, stated that it has a zero-tolerance technique in the direction of manipulation.

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Rahul Gandhi stated he were discreetly knowledgeable via way of means of Twitter India personnel that they have been below titanic stress via way of means of the authorities to silence his voice.

Senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Twitter, urging it now no longer to become “a pawn withinside the destruction of the concept of India”. Writing to Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal, he stated he desired to spotlight Twitter`s unwitting complicity in curtailing loose and honest speech. In reaction to Rahul Gandhi`s letter, the microblogging internet site stated that it has a zero-tolerance technique to manipulation and spam. 
 Rahul Gandhi, in his letter, protected an evaluation of his account and a assessment with the ones of PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. He stated whilst his fans extended through four lakh on common for the primary seven months of 2021, the boom had come to a halt after his account became suspended for 8 days in August final year.

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This turned into the length while he raised maximum of the burning issues. 
 "I am writing to you on behalf of greater than 1000000000 Indians to now no longer permit Twitter to end up a pawn withinside the destruction of the concept of India," Gandhi stated withinside the letter written on December 27, 2021. India Today has a replica of the letter.

"I were reliably, albeit discreetly, knowledgeable with the aid of using humans at Twitter India that they're beneathneath titanic stress with the aid of using the authorities to silence my voice. My account become even blocked for some days for no valid reason. There have been many different Twitter handles, such as authorities ones, which had tweeted comparable snap shots of the equal humans. None of these money owed become blocked. My account become singularly targeted," he stated withinside the letter.


A Twitter spokesperson said: “Twitter has a zero-tolerance technique to platform manipulation and junk mail. We combat junk mail and malicious automation strategically and at scale with system getting to know tools, and as a part of the ones regular and ongoing efforts to make certain a wholesome provider and credible accounts, follower counts can and do fluctuate.”