1st Indian politician from BJP IT cell to be flagged by Twitter for fake news 'manipulated media'

Twitter on Wednesday tagged as “manipulated media” an image posted by Amit Malviya, the head of the BJP’s information and technology department and co-in-charge of Bengal, while the farmers’ protest was snowballing in the capital.Twitter’s action makes Malviya perhaps the first Indian politician to be flagged for fake news and puts him in the unsavoury company of Donald Trump, many of whose tweets had been called out during the recent US presidential elections.Malviya is accused of posting an edited video to suggest that a particular farmer was not beaten, contrary to the impression left behind by a photograph tweeted by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday. The purported full video showed a blow from another officer landing on the farmer.