ThefooderaAll New NewsPM Modi Drops Weibo Account. Why It Was Hard To Delete His Posts

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2020-07-01 14:28:19

After 59 Chinese apps were blocked by the government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Weibo account went blank on Wednesday. The PM’s profile photo, posts and comments have been removed from the Twitter-like account, but after some back-and-forth.

Sources said PM Modi had 115 posts on Weibo, which had to be manually deleted because of a complex procedure for VIP accounts on China’s largest microblogging site.

An official process was initiated, the sources said. “For reasons best known to the Chinese, there was a great delay in granting this basic permission,” they added.

Two posts could still not be deleted because they featured PM Modi’s photos with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Chinese app cannot delete photos of their President easily, said sources.

TikTok, WeChat, UC Browser and Cam Scanner are among the Chinese apps that were blocked by the government on Monday on grounds that they are “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order”.