Twitter was caught in a storm on Sunday after Jammu and Kashmir was shown as part of China during a live broadcast by a journalist at a war memorial in Leh, the capital of Ladakh.
Nitin Gokhale, author and national security analyst, kicked off the live Twitter feed from the Hall of Fame, a memorial to the soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the country. The location tag shown in the video was marked “Jammu and Kashmir, People’s Republic of China.” Twitter users, including Gokhale himself, immediately pointed out the error by tagging the official identifiers of Twitter and Twitter India. However, there have been no responses from either account in this regard.
“Twitter friends, I just did a live from the Hall of Fame. Giving the Hall of Fame as the location and guess what Jammu & Kashmir, People’s Republic of China is saying! Are you guys crazy? Gokhale tweeted after his live broadcast. He had also asked other users to tag the location Hall of Fame, Leh and to post on Twitter.
Gokhale, the editor-in-chief of Strat News Global, is visiting areas along the northern border areas and recently tweeted about his trip. His visit included places like the newly built Atal Tunnel on the Leh-Manali Highway and the Shinkula Pass.
Some other users tried uploading images and live streams with their location tagged as Leh. However, the observations were similar and the Leh Hall of Fame was shown to be part of China.
Kanchan Gupta, a member of the Observer Research Foundation, also commented on the issue. “So @Twitter has decided to reconfigure the geography and declare Jammu & Kashmir part of the People’s Republic of #China. If this is not a violation of the laws of India, what is? The citizens of India have been punished for much less. But are America’s great technologies above the law? Gupta tweeted.
This comes after a day when Xiaomi phone users in India complained that the device was not displaying weather reports for locations in Arunachal Pradesh. Popular gadget critic Gaurav Chaudhary, owner of the Technical Guruji YouTube channel, pointed out the issue after which many users reported the same.
The two incidents also come at a time amid border tensions between India and China.
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