CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Taking suo moto cognisance of several tweets openly depicting videos and photographs of sexual acts involving children, the Commission said that most of the tweets portrayed children completely naked and many of them also depicted brutal rape and other non-consensual sexual activities with children and women.

Detailed explanation-2: -Twitter said that between mid-2015 and February 2016 it had suspended 125, 000 accounts associated with ISIL and related organizations, and by August 2016 had suspended some 360, 000 accounts for being associated with terrorism (not all these were ISIL-related).

Detailed explanation-3: -In some cases, governments and other authorities take unilateral action to block Internet access to Twitter or its content. As of February 2022, the governments of China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have blocked access to Twitter.

Detailed explanation-4: -Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are not getting banned in India.