Even as a Twitter political firestorm rages in India, the social media platform announced it will start adding tags to identify more accounts related to status, including personal accounts of world leaders, to give users more context for comments. geopolitical talks on this issue. "Our main motivation is to give people on Twitter, wherever they are in the world, more context about the tweets they see, rather than to change the behavior of governments," quoted Nick Pickles, global director of strategy and policy development. Twitter public. like saying. These labels are not punitive. They do not limit the visibility of tweets. They do not affect the way people see these tweets. It's just additional context to apply to tweets, he added. Twitter has been at the center of controversy ever since it dismantled former US President Donald Trump. Today in India, he is accused of failing to implement the government's defense against the claws that he (the Indian government) believes are against the best interests of the nation. In places like Myanmar and Iran, Twitter finds itself embroiled in a fight with the state.
India is not on the list of 16 new countries
(Image credit: Twitter) It will be recalled that last year, Twitter began putting hashtags on state-backed media accounts like Russian Sputnik and Chinese Xinhua News. It also identified some senior government officials from five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Now, in a blog post, Twitter has said it is expanding its hashtags to key government officials and institutions who are "the voice of the nation-state abroad" from the G7 countries and most countries where Twitter has identified what it considers to be state-related information operations. . The 16 new countries where senior officials and institutions will be tagged are: Canada, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. . . India stands out by its absence from the list. < p lang="en" dir="ltr">For clarity: We do not allow state-affiliated media accounts to advertise on Twitter. We will no longer include them or their Tweets in the recommendations, as we continue to support a free and independent press. Read more about this policy and the new wording: https://t.co/BY1jTO46Zc (2/2) August 6, 2020 Twitter will also tag the personal accounts of heads of state in those countries for use of those accounts with diplomatic purposes. Twitter said it will continue to expand the hashtags to more countries. "As part of the next phase of this project, we will work to apply additional tags to state-affiliated media accounts over the next few months, taking an iterative approach to ensure we capture all relevant accounts," Twitter said on its blog.