Twitter under fire for showing a map of Jammu and Kashmir outside India

Gulf Today Report

Every now and then, social networking sites find themselves in the thick of controversy, particularly over their posts: what to delete, label or leave them as they are.

Not long ago, Facebook was under fire over its ‘fake news’ and grilled over interference in the US elections. Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike slammed the well-known social media portal for not cracking down on child abuse and political misinformation, and even over data privacy.

This month, Twitter’s India head Manish Maheshwari was summoned by police in the state of Uttar Pradesh for failing to check a video from going viral that allegedly sparked religious discord.

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Now in a new dramatic twist, there is a fresh headache for the social networking site: a religious group in India has filed a complaint with police against Twitter's country head for showing the state of Jammu and Kashmir outside the territory of India on a map, as a separate country, while Ladakh has been depicted as a part of China.

One party leader called it an act of treason.

The map, which appeared on Twitter’s careers page, created a firestorm on social media in the country.

The incident comes over a raging battle between the government of India and Twitter over new IT regulations.

As of Tuesday, the map appears to have been removed.

India's technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had earlier slammed Twitter for denying him access to his Twitter account.