Social media platform X said that it had taken down four posts by political parties and leaders on the poll panel’s orders.
Social media platform X said on Tuesday it withheld some posts in India containing political speech from elected politicians, political parties, and candidates for office after the country's election commission ordered their takedown. Elon Musk-owned X said it disagreed with the election commission's orders. "We call on the Election Commission to publish all of its takedown orders going forward," X said. India, with nearly a billion eligible voters, will set off on the world's largest...
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Most polls have predicted a victory for Modi and the BJP.
The task of finding 12 impartial jurors was off to a bumpy start Tuesday as attorneys for Donald Trump, a former president known for his unfiltered use of social media, pressed New Yorkers about whether they could fairly judge him. A prospective juror pronounced Trump “totally guilty” in an interview outside the courthouse Monday. A day later, that person, an American history teacher, was struck from a rapidly winnowing pool of more than 500 New Yorkers. Lawyers excavated ancient social media...
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Bad Bunny has jokes. Drew McIntyre had a rollercoaster Sunday, winning the Slammy for "Social Star of the Year" and winning the WWE World Heavyweight Title from Seth Rollins at WWE WrestleMania XL. Unfortunately for McIntyre, Damian Priest cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase and defeated Drew to win the WWE World Heavyweight Title. McIntyre may now need to hand Bad Bunny his "Social Star of the Year" Slammy after the recording artist responded to a tweet sent by McIntyre during his...
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Talks on forming a new right-wing coalition government in the Netherlands continue to be dogged by social media posts, particularly by far-right leader Geert Wilders. On Thursday Wilders refused to withdraw a post he had placed about the VVD’s junior immigration minister Eric van der Burg, describing him instead as someone “who has turned the Netherlands into one big refugee centre” and a “scary little man”. Earlier Van der Burg had said during a parliamentary debate that the decision not