For the first time ever Twitter has taken action against fake news in India after it labelled a tweet by India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT head as "manipulated media". He also wrote that "Rahul Gandhi must be the most discredited opposition leader India has seen in a long long time." Rahul Gandhi must be the most discredited opposition leader India has seen in a long long time. Twitter then labelled the tweet as "manipulated media", saying the video shared by Malviya was edited, according to fact-check websites. Twitter's 'synthetic and manipulated media policy' says: "You may not deceptively promote synthetic or manipulated media that are likely to cause harm.

Source: The Express Tribune December 02, 2020 18:11 UTC