Micro-blogging platform Twitter has once again shown a distorted map of India on its website. The distorted map was seen under the careers section on its website. The map that appears on the ‘Tweep Life’ section shows Jammu & Kashmir as a separate county and Leh as a part of China.
The distorted map has attracted criticism from netizens. Many tagging Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and PM Modi asked, why is there such hesitancy in banning Twitter, after these repeated offences. Some users said, Twitter is becoming bold and anarchist day by day, and this map is humiliating for Indian citizens.
This is not the first time that the social media platform has shown the wrong map of India. In October 2020, national security analyst Nitin A Gokhale found that Twitter had labelled the Indian territory of Leh in Ladakh as part of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
The government of India issued a warning to CEO Jack Dorsey over the misrepresentation of the Indian map. Giving notice to Twitter, Secretary IT had said that such attempts not only bring disrepute to Twitter but also raises questions about its neutrality and fairness as an intermediary.