New Delhi: Fact-checker and journalist Mohammed Zubair has posted an email from social media giant X that says that the Delhi Police has flagged his account and asked the platform to either take down particular content or his whole account.
Zubair, who frequently posts takedowns of false information on X, is the co-founder of the fact-checking platform Alt News. He has 1.1 million followers on the platform.
He had in 2022 been arrested by Delhi police for a 2018 tweet in which he shared a screenshot from a 1983 Hindi movie, which police claimed “hurt religious sentiments.” Six cases were slapped on him during the period of his incarceration until the Supreme Court granted him bail.
The screenshot of the email from X that Zubair has posted on the site is an excerpt from a routine notification that X sends to account holders on whose handles it receives removal requests.
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