Toolkit: Congress seeks manipulated media tag on tweets of 11 union ministers

The Congress on Tuesday demanded that Twitter affix manipulated media tag to tweets of several union ministers for allegedly spreading false and malicious propaganda against the partyCongress general secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala wrote to Twitters Lead for Legal Policy and Trust and Safety Vijaya Gadde and its Deputy General Counsel and Vice President Legal Jim Baker seeking stern action against 11 union ministers for allegedly spreading false and forged documentsSurjewala has alleged that the forged fabricated material and the claims made under the CongressToolkitExposed by various ministers are identical to the material that has already been marked as manipulated media by TwitterHe alleged that the subject matter of the forged Toolkit document was created by certain BJP leaders to gain undue and wrongful political advantage by spreading potentially dangerous false and fabricated material through their Twitter handles against the Indian National Congress and its leadersThe union ministers against whom the Congress has sought action are Giriaj Singh Piyush Goyal Smriti Irani Ravi Shankar Prasad Prahlad Joshi Dharmendra Pradhan Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank Thawarchand Gehlot Harsh Vardhan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Gajendra Singh ShekhawatSurjewala said It is a matter of fact that people tend to believe true and take on face value any information that is put up directly by a Union Minister of the Government of India through his her official verified Twitter accountHence it becomes all the more imperative to tag manipulative media sic on all such tweets made by Ministers of the Government of India on the above referred forged toolkit document created by the BJP he said in his complaintIt is reasonable to expect that the aforementioned individuals will be dealt with the same yardstick as applied in other cases where the Twitter platform is misused to broadcast forged and fabricated material he also saidThis comes a day after Delhi Polices Special Cell sent a notice to Twitter India in connection with the probe into a complaint about the alleged COVID toolkit asking it to share information based on which it had classified a related tweet by BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra as manipulated media with two police teams descending on the microblogging sites offices in Lado Sarai in Delhi and in Gurgaon on Monday eveningEarlier Twitter tagged tweets of BJP leaders Sambit Patra and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat as manipulative mediaThe Congress has accused BJP leaders including union ministers of misusing the Twitter platform to disseminate forged and fabricated materialThe Congress had earlier complained to Delhi police to register an FIR against BJP leaders for allegedly spreading false information about the Congress toolkitThe NSUI has already registered an FIR against Raman Singh and Sambit Patra in Raipur Chhattisgarh where the Congress is in powerThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever