Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has said that India Threatened to shut down the social media platform and raid employees’ homes over demands for the removal of certain posts and accounts critical of the government. In early 2021, Twitter was ordered to suspend hundreds of accounts and curtail the visibility of certain hashtags in India, prompting the Indian government to threaten legal action against the US-based firm. Twitter resisted the orders, notably suing the Indian government to contest several of the imposed block orders on tweets and accounts.

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