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Twitter employed Indian and Chinese government agents, alleges whistleblower testifying before US State Congress

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From an ad ban in Turkey to being blocked in China, Twitter is no stranger to being caught in political crosshairs. But visuals of police raiding its Gurgaon office for labeling a BJP leader’s tweet as ‘manipulated media’, highlighted how far authorities were willing to go. Over a year after that raid, a whistleblower and Twitter’s former security chief Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko alleged that the Indian state had forced the firm to hire a government agent.