Twitter ‘concerned’ about India staff safety after police visit

Firm worried about safety of workers days after police visited its offices to probe tagging of BJP posts as manipulated.

Twitter Inc says it is worried about the safety of its staff in India, days after police visited its offices as part of a probe related to the social media firm’s tagging of some governing party posts as manipulated. Indian police on Monday visited the Twitter offices to serve a notice to the micro-blogging firm’s country head for a probe into its tagging of a tweet by a ruling party spokesman as “manipulated media”. Without directly referring to the Delhi police action, Twitter on Thursday said: “We, alongside many in civil society in India and around the world, have concerns with regards to the use of intimidation tactics by the police in response to enforcement of our global Terms of Service.”