Trump slams Twitter for 'shadow banning' Republicans
Washington, July 26 ; US President Donald Trump on Thursday slammed Twitter for "shadow banning" some Republicans in search results on the micro-blogging platform.
"SHADOW BANNING" prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints," Trump tweeted.
The tweet came a day after Vice News reported that Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel, several conservative Republican congressmen and Donald Trump Jr.'s spokesperson stopped showing up in Twitter's auto-populated drop-down search box.
"Twitter is limiting the visibility of prominent Republicans in search results - a technique known as "shadow banning" - in what it says is a side effect of its attempts to improve the quality of discourse on the platform," the report said.
A Twitter spokesperson told Vice: "We are aware that some accounts are not automatically populating in our search box and shipping a change to address this".
After Trump's tweet, Twitter shares slipped 3.2 per cent to $42.79 in early trading, Fortune reported.
Trump has 53.3 million followers on the micro-blogging platform.
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Affront to non-Hindi speaking people: Chidambaram slams use of Hindi words in bills' names
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader P Chidambaram has slammed the "increasing practice" of the government using Hindi words in the titles of the bills and said the change is an "affront" to the non-Hindi-speaking people.
Chidambaram said the non-Hindi-speaking people cannot identify a Bill/Act with titles that are in Hindi words written in English letters, and they cannot pronounce them.
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"I am opposed to the increasing practice of the government using Hindi words written in English letters in the title of the Bills to be introduced in Parliament," the former Union minister said late Monday night.
Hitherto, the practice was to write the title of the Bill in English words in the English version and in Hindi words in the Hindi version of the Bill, Chidambaram said.
"When no one pointed out any difficulty in the 75 year practice, why should government make a change?" he said.
"This change is an affront to non-Hindi speaking people and to States that have an official language other than Hindi," the Congress leader said.
Successive governments have reiterated the promise that English will remain an Associate Official Language, Chidambaram said.
"I fear that promise is in danger of being broken," the Congress MP said.
