Twitter takes down Kangana Ranaut's tweets on farmers' protest over violations

The move comes a day after the actor went into a rampage on Twitter over pop singer Rihanna's recent post on farmers' protest

Microblogging site Twitter on Thursday took down some tweets put out by Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut on farmers' protest, saying the posts were in violation of the platform's rules on hate speech.

The move comes a day after the actor went on a Twitter rampage over pop singer Rihanna's recent post on farmers' protest at the Singhu border in Delhi.

"This Tweet is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules," the company said.

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Rihanna on February 2 tweeted about the farmers' protests ongoing in New Delhi for 71 days, asking "why aren't we talking about this?"

Reacting to Rihanna's comment, Ranaut had said, "No one is talking about it because they are not farmers they are terrorists who are trying to divide India, so that China can take over our vulnerable broken nation and make it a Chinese colony much like USA... Sit down you fool, we are not selling our nation like you dummies".

Ranaut also called climate activist Greta Thunberg a "rat" for her comments on the protests.

The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) on Wednesday issued fresh notice to micro-blogging platform for reinstating a number of accounts posting about ‘farmer genocide’ despite the government's earlier directive to block these and has warned of consequences if the accounts are not taken down again.

On Monday, Twitter blocked over 250 accounts and tweets related to farmers protest after the government direction. According to the government these accounts spread fake news and posts were inflamatory. However same night, all accounts have been restored.