Twitter on Monday removed the distorted map of India that showed Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as a separate country. The map, which appeared on the career section of the Twitter website under the header ‘Tweep Life’, triggered a backlash from netizens, who demanded strict action against the microblogging platform. #TwitterBan was trending on Twitter with almost 17,000 tweets.

Sources said the government is seriously looking into the matter. In this case, since the wrong depiction is on Twitter’s website, the case is not that of an ‘intermediary’ but of a publisher which is responsible for content. 

This is not the first time Twitter has misrepresented the country’s map.

In October last year, Twitter faced backlash after its geotagging feature displayed “Jammu & Kashmir, People’s Republic of China” in a live broadcast from Leh’s Hall of Fame, a war memorial for fallen soldiers in the Union Territory of Ladakh.

The following month, Twitter showed Leh as part of Jammu and Kashmir instead of the Union Territory of Ladakh.

Following this, the Centre issued a notice to the company for disrespecting the territorial integrity of India by showing an incorrect map.