{"id":141656,"date":"2021-06-29T13:09:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T07:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=141656"},"modified":"2021-06-29T13:34:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T08:04:29","slug":"twitter-misleading-flag-prashant-bhushan-tweet-covid-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/twitter-misleading-flag-prashant-bhushan-tweet-covid-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter gives misleading flag to Prashant Bhushan&#8217;s tweet on Covid vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Social media giant Twitter on Monday flagged a tweet by activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan as misleading and blocked his account for 12 hours. Bhushan had tweeted a document that mentioned why he is a vaccine skeptic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had tweeted that he been attacked by many for tweeting about his views on Covid vaccines. The piece below summarises his Vaccine skepticism &amp; the reasons for this. Apart from the vaccines being untested &amp; having serious adverse effects, he said he was shocked by attempts to censor such contrarian views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, after his tweet promoting vaccine hesitancy, netizens questioned Twitter for not flagging his tweet, leading to the microblogging platform tagging it as misleading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have been attacked by many for tweeting about my views on Covid vaccines. The piece below summarises my Vaccine skepticism &amp; the reasons for this. Apart from the vaccines being untested &amp; having serious adverse effects, I am shocked by attempts to censor such contrarian views <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UktE7f7BPt\">pic.twitter.com\/UktE7f7BPt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pbhushan1\/status\/1409494531100217349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Attaching a news article about a case where a 45-year-old woman died 10 days after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, Bhushan had tweeted on Monday morning that it was irresponsible to promote universal vaccination of experimental and untested vaccines especially to young and Covid recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A lot of people including friends &amp; family have accused me of promoting Vaccine hesitancy, let me clarify my position.<br>I am not anti Vaccine per se. But I believe it is irresponsible to promote universal vaccination of experimental&amp;untested vaccines esp to young &amp; Covid recovered <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SVHwgyZcvU\">https:\/\/t.co\/SVHwgyZcvU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pbhushan1\/status\/1409348562987536390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a follow-up tweet, he wrote, the healthy young have hardly any chance of serious effects or dying due to covid. They have a higher chance of dying due to vaccines. The covid recovered have much better natural immunity than the vaccine gives them. Vaccines may even compromise their acquired natural immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move by Twitter comes weeks after another similar high-profile labeling, as manipulated media of tweets by BJP leaders like Sambit Patra who accused the opposition Congress of preparing and sharing a toolkit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter has been at loggerheads with the BJP-led Central government over series of issues ranging from requests to take down tweets supporting the farmers\u2019 protest, discrediting posts by leaders of the BJP, and more recently new regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter has been under scanner ever since it refused to comply with the new Information Technology rules laid by the Central Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government laid down new IT rules in February which came into effect on May 26. Under the new rules, they directed all major social media platforms operating in the country to appoint compliance officers in India, set up grievance response mechanisms, and takedown content within 36 hours of a legal order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Centre, the new rules are designed to prevent abuse and misuse of platforms and offer users a robust forum for grievance redressal. The social media platforms, if they fail to comply with rules, would result in losing the intermediary status that provides them immunity from liabilities over any third-party data hosted by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/twitter-india-manish-maheshwari-up-police-over-incorrect-map-of-india\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/twitter-india-manish-maheshwari-up-police-over-incorrect-map-of-india\/\">Twitter India head booked by UP police over incorrect map of India<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other India news, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/kamal-haasan-cinematography-act-2021-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kamal Haasan<\/a> on Tuesday joined the campaign against Central government\u2019s proposed Cinematograph Act 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092a\u0939\u0932\u0940 \u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0921\u094d\u0930\u094b\u0928 \u0906\u0924\u0902\u0915\u0940 \u0939\u092e\u0932\u093e, \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u093f\u090f \u0915\u093f\u0924\u0928\u0940 \u092c\u0921\u093c\u0940 \u091a\u0941\u0928\u094c\u0924\u0940 ? \u0926\u0947\u0916\u093f\u092f\u0947 \u0916\u093e\u0938 \u092a\u0947\u0936\u0915\u0936 #APMMudda\" width=\"740\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1lj-P_m1yc0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant Twitter on Monday flagged a tweet by activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan as misleading and blocked his account for 12 hours. 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