Thursday, 23 August 2012

India warns website Twitter over ethnic violence rumours

NEW DELHI: India has threatened to take action against micro-blogging website Twitter over content alleged to have inflamed ethnic tensions against migrants from the northeast, reports said on Thursday.

Internet posts, phone text messages and fake video clips are blamed for spreading rumours that Muslims would attack students and workers from India’s northeastern region living in Bangalore and other southern cities.

Tens of thousands of people fled back to the remote northeast last

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