IT Minister pulls up WhatsApp for incorrect India map shown in tweeted video; asks platform to fix error
New Delhi, December 31
IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Saturday asked WhatsApp to fix an incorrect map of India shown in a video tweeted by the messaging platform.
The Minister also made it clear that “all platforms that do business in India and/or want to continue to do business in India, must use correct maps”.
“Dear @WhatsApp – Request that you pls fix the India map error asap”,” Chandrasekhar tweeted immediately after the Meta-owned messaging platform put out a New Year-related tweet showing a wrong map of India.
The video post by WhatsApp about a New Year eve livestream depicted the globe that showed an incorrect map of India with regard to Jammu and Kashmir.
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