Twitter blocked a tweet by BJP MP Tejasvi Surya at the request of the Indian Government.

A retweet by Lumen database confirms that a tweet by Tejasvi Surya was blocked by Twitter on government's request.

A retweet by Lumen database confirms that a tweet by Tejasvi Surya was blocked by Twitter on government's request.Lumen is an independent agency that publishes content removal requests from various entities.

The Lumen Database retweeted an article published by The Wire which said that a notice sent by Twitter to third party database indicated that the Indian IT ministry had asked for over a hundred tweets to be withheld from viewing in India, which included a 5-year-old tweet posted by BJP MP Tejaswi Surya. The legal request made by the Government of India can be accessed on Luman database.

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