BENGALURU/NEW DELHI ¨C In January, an old post on Elon Musk¡¯s social media platform, X, became a concern for police in the Indian city of Satara. Written in 2023, the short message from an account with a few hundred followers described a senior ruling-party politician as ¡°useless.¡±
¡°This post and content are likely to create serious communal tension,¡± inspector Jitendra Shahane wrote in a content-removal notice marked ¡°CONFIDENTIAL¡± and addressed to X.
The post, which remains online, is among hundreds cited by X in a lawsuit it filed in March against India¡¯s government, challenging a sweeping crackdown on social media content by Prime Minister Narendra Modi¡¯s administration.
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