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After Congress chief Rahul Gandhi<\/span> wrote to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal final month claiming that his follower rely had began to drop, the social media firm on Thursday mentioned that the numbers are \u201csignificant and correct\u201d.\u00a0Twitter\u2019s spokesperson pointed to the corporate\u2019s \u201czero-tolerance method to platform manipulation and spam\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe struggle spam and malicious automation strategically and at scale with machine studying instruments, and as a part of these constant and ongoing efforts to make sure a wholesome service and credible accounts, follower counts can and do fluctuate,\u201d the Twitter spokesperson instructed ANI<\/em>.<\/p>\n This comes after Gandhi wrote to the platform\u2019s CEO Parag Agrawal final month, claiming that Twitter was maybe unwittingly complicit in \u201ccurbing free and truthful speech\u201d in India. He mentioned that his follower rely on the platform has not elevated since his account was quickly suspended in August 2021.\u00a0Gandhi in his letter dated December 27, 2021, mentioned Twitter shouldn’t turn into a \u201cpawn within the destruction of the thought of India\u201d and argued that it has an \u201cmonumental duty to make sure that it doesn’t actively assist in the expansion of authoritarianism in India.\u201d<\/p>\n Congress chief Rahul Gandhi wrote to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on twenty seventh December 2021, stating that \u201cit’s perplexing that the expansion in my Twitter followers has abruptly been suppressed.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/xhbT1UWxXh<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014 ANI (@ANI) January 27, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Asserting that the ideological battle between liberal democracy and authoritarianism the world over is being formed on social media platforms, he mentioned, \u201cThis locations an enormous duty on these which might be on the helm of corporations comparable to Twitter\u2026 I need to carry your consideration to what I imagine is Twitter\u2019s unwitting complicity in curbing free and truthful speech in India.\u201d<\/p>\n Gandhi claimed \u201cthere may be an ongoing assault on India\u2019s institutional framework and an entire seize of conventional mainstream media\u201d which has been \u201cmentioned extensively each in India and overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTherefore, social media platforms like Twitter have turn into an essential channel to lift individuals\u2019s points and maintain the Authorities to account. In opposition to this backdrop, it’s perplexing that the expansion in my Twitter followers has abruptly been suppressed. With almost 20 million followers, my Twitter account has been very lively, including a median of eight to 10 thousand new followers on daily basis.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFor instance, in Might 2021, my account gained roughly 640,000 new followers. This had been the case for a number of years till July 2021. Then one thing unusual occurred. Since August 2021, the typical variety of my new month-to-month Twitter followers has fallen to just about zero. There may be an inflection level after which my Twitter account appears to have been paralysed,\u201d the previous Congress president wrote.<\/p>\n Gandhi additionally hooked up an evaluation by \u201csocial media specialists.\u201d<\/p>\n He mentioned it was throughout that point he had \u201craised the plight of a rape sufferer\u2019s household in Delhi, stood in solidarity with farmers and fought the federal government on many different human rights points.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI’ve been reliably, albeit discreetly, knowledgeable by individuals at Twitter India that they’re underneath immense stress by the federal government to silence my voice. My account was even blocked for just a few days for no official motive. There have been many different Twitter handles, together with authorities ones, which had tweeted related images of the identical individuals. None of those accounts have been blocked. My account was singularly focused,\u201d he mentioned.<\/p>\n Gandhi\u2019s Twitter account was \u201cquickly\u201d suspended on August 8, 2021, a day after {a photograph} posted by him with the household of the nine-year-old Dalit rape sufferer was taken down by the microblogging website.<\/p>\n In its response, Twitter highlighted that it eliminated tens of millions of accounts every week for violating the corporate\u2019s coverage on manipulation and spam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) After Congress chief Rahul Gandhi wrote to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal final month claiming that his follower rely had began to drop, the social media firm on Thursday mentioned that the numbers are \u201csignificant and correct\u201d.\u00a0Twitter\u2019s spokesperson pointed to the corporate\u2019s \u201czero-tolerance method to platform manipulation and spam\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cWe struggle spam and malicious automation strategically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[43],"tags":[393,107,28526,1934,2720,1470,62028],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/01\/b3c35b7bff0645969225baaa2b164ca6-b3c35b7bff0645969225baaa2b164ca6-39d905a115274eeba0373740dbe6fb01.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47044,"url":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/kangana-ranaut-bids-farewell-to-chacha-jack-dorsey-as-he-steps-down-as-twitter-ceo\/","url_meta":{"origin":108012,"position":0},"title":"Kangana Ranaut bids farewell to \u2018chacha\u2019 Jack Dorsey as he steps down as Twitter CEO","date":"November 30, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Actor Kangana Ranaut bid farewell to outgoing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday. 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