The government has issued a notice to Twitter Inc. to comply with all its past orders by July 4, an official source said on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Electronics and IT has set a deadline of July 4, failing which Twitter may lose intermediary status, which means it will be liable for all the comments posted on its platform.
"A notice was issued on June 27 to Twitter to comply with all government orders issued till date. Twitter was issued notices earlier this month but it did not comply with it. This is the final notice," a government source told PTI.
On June 26, Twitter submitted a list of more than 80 accounts and tweets that it has blocked based on a request from the government in 2021. The request from the government was to block multiple accounts and some tweets from international advocacy group Freedom House, journalists, politicians and supporters of last year's farmer protests.
The government source, however, said that there are several other orders, with which Twitter is yet to comply.
Queries emailed to Twitter remained unanswered.
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