Almost million tweets on Kashmir blocked at India's behest: CPJ.

New York -- New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said that Twitter at the behest of the Indian government has blocked nearly a million tweets from accounts that focus on Kashmir.

According to Kashmir Media Service, a study by the CPJ revealed that almost 100 accounts were also made inaccessible to the residents of the occupied territory in the last two years, spurring claims that Twitter is contradicting the very values it purports to uphold.

The study maintained that Twitter agreed to block more accounts in occupied Kashmir than in every other country combined.

Data released by Twitter to Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center and its Lumen project, which was then published publicly and analyzed by the CPJ, showed that legal notices to the company directing them to take down tweets or accounts started to spike in August of 2017. Since that time, Twitter agreed to uphold 131 of the 4,722 requests from Indian officials to remove content.

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