New Delhi: A report was filed to police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) against Twitter’s head in India, Manish Maheshwari, calling the publication of the distorted map “an act of treason”.
The error was a sensitive one. The state of Jammu and Kashmir has been rocked by a separatist insurgency fighting for independence from India for decades. In August 2019, the Indian government unilaterally stripped the region of its semi-autonomous powers, to the anger of many living in the state.
After the map error was flagged by a user, it prompted a backlash against Twitter, which then quietly removed the map from its “tweep life” section.
