Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Social media platform X on Tuesday mentioned that it had withheld sure posts in India containing political speech from elected politicians, political events, and candidates for workplace after the Election Commission ordered to takedown.
Howver, the X, owned by Elon Musk, expressed its disagreement with the orders issued by the election fee. “The Election Commission of India has issued takedown orders requiring X to act on posts containing political speech shared from elected politicians, political parties and candidates for office. In compliance with the orders, we have withheld these posts for the remainder of the election period; however, we disagree with these actions and maintain that freedom of expression should extend to these posts and political speech in general,” the X mentioned in a press release.
“We have notified the affected users and in the interest of transparency, we are publishing the takedown orders here. We call on the Election Commission to publish all of its takedown orders going forward,” it added.
The Lok Sabha polls will probably be held in seven phases starting on April 19 and the counting of votes will happen on June 4 for the world’s largest election train in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will bid for a 3rd consecutive time period. Voting in the opposite phases will probably be held on April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1.
(With Reuters enter)
