Hours after Twitter tagged tweets as 'manipulated media', the Delhi Police sent a notice to the social media platform asking it to share information that it had in this regard, news agency ANI reported. The tweets alleged that the Indian National Congress had created a toolkit to defame the Prime Minister and undermine the government's COVID-19 vaccination policy. ANI quoting unnamed officials in Delhi Police also said that they seeking clarification from Twitter on the classification of a tweet by BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra as manipulative. "It appears that Twitter has some information that is not known to us on basis of which they've classified it as such," ANI said in a tweet. https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1396796959344644100 https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1396796965292187650 Times of India journalist Rohan Dua on Twitter shared a copy of, what he claims to be the notice that the office of Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Special Cell of Delhi Police sent to Manish Maheshwari, managing director of Twitter India. MediaNama was not able to verify the authenticity of the notice at the time of publication. The document shared by him read, "Whereas during the course of the investigation it has come to our knowledge that you are acquainted with the facts of the matter and are in possession of information with regard to the same," it said. In simpler words, Delhi Police wants to know the basis on which Twitter decided to add the 'manipulated media' tag to specific tweets. The Delhi police also asked the Maheshwari to appear before the…
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