The principle Reuters information account, in addition to the Reuters World account, have apparently been inaccessible to X customers in India since Saturday night.
Reuters reports that Indian customers trying to view the @Reuters account — which has 25 million followers — as an alternative see a message stating that the account “has been withheld in IN (India) in response to a authorized demand.”
Nonetheless, an Indian authorities spokesperson instructed Reuters that no authorities company has made such a requirement.
A Reuters spokesperson mentioned the information company is “working with X to resolve this matter.” Reuters additionally says its social media group beforehand obtained a notification from X in Might stating that the corporate was withholding content material on the Indian authorities’s request, although the notification didn’t specify which company made the request or which content material was being focused.
The social media platform previously often known as Twitter (which just lately merged with another Elon Musk company, xAI) has criticized the Indian government over calls for that it block sure accounts and posts.
It even sued the government in March, claiming {that a} new web site permits “unrestrained censorship of knowledge in India” by unlawfully enabling “numerous” public officers to take down content material or block accounts. The federal government mentioned the web site solely allowed it to inform corporations about dangerous on-line content material.
Final 12 months, X additionally engaged in a protracted battle with Brazil’s Supreme Court docket, which noticed the service shut down operations in the country, then get banned for more than a month.
TechCrunch has reached out to X for remark.