Withheld X Accounts of Reuters, TRT World, Global Times Restored
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New Delhi: The X accounts of international news agency Reuters, the Chinese paper Global Times and the Turkish public broadcaster TRT News are now restored after having been withheld in India, presumably since the night of July 5.
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.
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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