A major battle over free speech on social media is playing out in India during the pandemic
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The Indian government is silencing its critics on Twitter and Facebook.
As the coronavirus pandemic rages in India, claiming thousands of lives, many Indians are turning to social media to demand that the government handle the public health crisis better. And now, the government is silencing these critics in its latest threat to the future of free speech on the internet in the world’s second-most populous country.
