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| India reportedly orders social media platforms to remove references to “Indian variant” of COVID-19 Posted: 23 May 2021 06:51 AM PDT  India's government has sent notices to social media platforms ordering them to take down content that refers to an "Indian variant" of the COVID-19 virus, Reuters reported. The letter from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology sent Friday was not made public, but was viewed by several news outlets. It was not clear which social media outlets received the letter, but India's government has recently ordered Twitter to remove tweets and Facebook and Instagram to take down posts that were critical of its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. "There is no such variant of COVID-19 scientifically cited as such by the World Health Organisation (WHO). WHO has not associated the term 'Indian Variant' with the B.1.617 variant of...  |
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