IT rule tweak likely if social media firms abuse power: Chandrasekhar

The latest stance by the minister follows a series of confrontations between the government and Twitter over the moderation of user-generated content on the platform

The government may further revise IT Rules 2021 if social media intermediaries abuse their power and restrict free speech on their platforms, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology (MoS IT) Rajeev Chandrasekhar told reporters on Friday when asked about alleged unfair filtering of content on Twitter. 

Bari Weiss, founder of the news publication The Free Press, on Friday published the second instalment of the Twitter Files, a series of revelations on the steps taken by the microblogging platform to suppress free speech. “A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from