A team of Delhi Police Special Cell on Monday eveningreached the office of micro-blogging site ‘Twitter’ to clear the air overCongress Toolkit row.
Teams of Special Cell arrived at two different offices ofTwitter- one in Lado Sarai and other in Gurugram.
It may be noted here, the move of Delhi Police came withinthe time-frame allotted by the Centre to the social media companies to acceptthe new norms which were built in February this year.
The current probe is to assess how Twitter marked BJPspokesperson Sambit Patra’s tweet on a ‘Congress Toolkit’ as “manipulatedmedia.”
In a statement, Delhi Police said, “We are probing into acomplaint to seek a clarification fromTwitter regarding the classification of a tweet by Sambit Patra as ‘manipulative’.”
“It appears that Twitter has some information which isnot known to us on the basis of which they have classified it as such. Thisinformation is relevant to the inquiry,” it further added.
The statement also said that Special Cell wants to findout the truth.
“Twitter which has claimed to know the underlying truthshould clarify," Delhi Police said.