Withheld X Accounts of Reuters, TRT World, Global Times Restored
As The Wire reported yesterday (July 6), the X accounts of these news sites said that the move was made in response to a 'legal demand'.
PTI then quoted an unnamed government source as having said that a demand for blocking Reuters' X account alongside several hundreds of other accounts was made during Operation Sindoor and it appeared that X had belatedly acted on this demand. The Wire was among news outlets whose webpages or social media accounts were blocked at the time when India was conducting strikes on Pakistani terror sites and combating counter-attack in May.
Later in the day on July 6, an official spokesperson of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology was quoted by news agencies as having said that 'there is no requirement from the government of India to withhold the Reuters handle. We are continuously working with 'X' to resolve the problem.'
By this morning, it appeared that all the accounts had been restored.
Reuters is the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, and the news agency provides information on breaking news and multimedia content from 2,600 journalists across 165 countries.
The Global Times is a daily Chinese tabloid under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party's flagship newspaper, the People's Daily.
TRT Global, previously named TRT World, is a Turkish public broadcaster.
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