550 Twitter accounts suspended over violence at farmers' protest on R-Day
550 Twitter accounts suspended over violence at farmers' protest on R-Day: Twitter removed off over 550 accounts from its platform in connection with the violence during the farmers' tractor rally in the national capital on the 72nd Republic Day . A Twitter spokesperson said that the platform has also labelled tweets which were found to be in violation of its "synthetic and manipulated media policy". "We have taken strong enforcement action to protect the conversation on the service from attempts to incite violence, abuse, and threats that could trigger the risk of offline harm by blocking certain terms that violate our rules for trends, the spokesperson said. The microblogging platform said that it had applied labels to tweets that were found to be in violation of synthetic and manipulated media policy."We are monitoring the situation closely and remain vigilant, and strongly encourage those on the service to report anything they believe is in viol...