Indian govt has blocked thousands of post in social media. Majority of post were from platform X( previously Twitter ). Ministry of electronic and information technology has ordered various social media companies to block 36,000 URLs.
This posts are from 2018 to october 2023. IT minister Rajiv Chandrashekhar has submitted data in Parliament.
Actually a member of upper house Britas from Kerala has raise the question. While answering questions IT minister said that most of the post and URLs were removed in 2020 at the time of covid 19. The number was 9,849.
Between 2018 to 2023, Govt has ordered most of the post from platform X to remove data. The number is 13,660. After X it is Facebook with 10,197 number. 3rd position is of YouTube in which 4,199 post and links were ordered to remove. From Instagram 3,023 posts were ordered to remove.