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Around 250 tweets and Twitter accounts were withheld in India after the intervention of the Indian Government on Monday.

Recently, Rajdeep Sardesai had peddled blatant lies over the death of a farmer during the tractor rally violence. He had also spread misinformation about Rashtrapati Bhavan over the Netaji portrait.

Tharoor was quoting a report done by The Wire in the first tweet that resulted in FIRs against The Wire Editor Siddharth Varadarajan.

Owned by one Simi Deol, Instant Bollywood spread anti-farm law propaganda on its social media accounts to millions of followers

During the Republic Day riots, one rioter Navreet had died after the tractor he was driving to break police barricades turned turtle. Tharoor and others tweeted that he died after Delhi Police shot at him.

On Saturday, a complaint was registered against the far-left 'journalist' under Section 153B and 505 of the IPC in Rampur police station for trying to instigate the crowd by peddling false information about the death of a rioter named Navreet Singh, who had died during the tractor rally after his tractor turtled.

The tractor that had ran over women was participating in tractor rally, and there is no proof that he is BJP worker as claimed by Alka Lamba

Editors Guild of India condemned the FIRs against 'journalists' for sharing fake news during the Republic Day violence in Delhi.

The FIR states that fake news was circulated in a coordinated and well-planned manner that police have shot a person dead

Rajdeep Sardesai may quit India Today at a later date so that his exit is not linked to controversies of this week