India denies threatening to shut down Twitter, founder claims otherwise

India denies Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's claims that the Indian government threatened to shut down the social media platform unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts critical of the government's handling of farmer protests. Dorsey also claimed that India threatened to raid Twitter employees' homes if the company did not comply with government requests to take down certain posts. The Indian government called Dorsey's assertions an "outright lie" and said that Twitter had repeatedly violated Indian law under his leadership. Modi's government has been criticized for excessive censorship of content critical of its working, leading to India's lowest ranking ever in the World Press Freedom Index.