Courting yet another controversy, micro-blogging website Twitter has again shown a distorted map of India by showing Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh outside India. The map, which shows the said regions as a separate country, can be seen on Twitter’s ‘Tweep Life’ section. 

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This isn’t the first time that Twitter has displayed an improper map of India. Last year, during the India-China border tension in eastern Ladakh, it had shown Leh as part of China. At that time, Centre wrote to the social media giant to express its disapproval over the distorted map.

Twitter’s recent misrepresentation of India’s territorial boundary received flak on the platform.

The Centre and Twitter are already engaged in a tussle over the former’s new IT rules, which the social media platform hasn’t fully complied with. This has led to Twitter losing its legal shield as an intermediary in India. It is now liable for the users’ content posted on its platform. 

The government had slammed Twitter for its defiance to comply with its rules, with Union Minister of Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad saying that the platform “deliberately” chose the path of non-compliance despite being granted multiple opportunities.

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The two also clashed over other issues, which includes the farmers’ protest and most recently, when Twitter flagged tweets by several members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and labelled them as ‘manipulated media’.