Twitter apologises to India for showing Leh, Ladakh in China The Federal


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Twitter has issued a formal apology to the Indian government for showing Leh and Ladakh as part of China. Twitter has told the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Personal Data Protection that it will rectify its error by November 30, officials said. The parliamentary panel chairperson, Meenakshi Lekhi, told PTI that the microblogging site has apologised in writing. “Twitter’s affidavit is signed by Damien Karien, Chief Privacy Officer of Twitter Inc, for wrong geo-tagging of India’s map. Twitter has apologised for hurting Indian sentiments and has sworn to correct the error by November 30, 2020,” Lekhi said. Social media users came...