Twitter under fire over deletion of critical Covid tweets in India

Lawmakers and rights activists say removals risk people’s health and harms freedom of speechThe removal of dozens of tweets seen to be critical of the Indian government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic is putting people’s health at risk and quashing dissent, according to lawmakers and human rights activists.Twitter withheld some tweets after a legal request by the Indian government, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Saturday. These included tweets from a lawmaker, a