'No Requirement,' Says Govt as X Accounts of Reuters, TRT World, Global Times Withheld in India

PTI has quoted an unnamed government sources as having said that a demand for blocking Reuters' X account alongside several hundreds of other accounts was made during Operation Sindoor and it appears that X has now acted on this demand.

The Wire Staff

no requirement says govt as x accounts of reuters trt world global times withheld in india

The blocked accounts' screengrabs.

New Delhi: The X social media accounts of international news agency Reuters, along with those of the Chinese paper Global Times and the Turkish public broadcaster TRT News have been withheld in India, presumably since the night of July 5. The X accounts cite that the move was made in response to a “legal demand”.

An official spokesperson of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has been 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."

Other affiliate X handles of Reuters such as Reuters Asia, Reuters Business and Reuters Science News still remain accessible on the social media site. Reuters’ website also remains accessible as of now.

The account of Reuters Science News on X.

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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