SOURCE: TIMES NOW
Twitter location controversy erupts after Twitter India showed Jammu and Kashmir as a part of the Peoples Republic of China in the timelines. This blunder was pointed out by a Twitter user.
A journalist Nitin Gokhale was live from Leh, Twitter showed his location as Jammu and Kashmir, Peoples Republic of China, and he tweeted this. Also, several other Netizens tried to tweet from several locations in Leh, but Twitter was showing the same as Jammu and Kashmir a part of China.
The mistake has anger patriots questioning Twitter’s stand. The matter was raised by Kanchan Gupta, Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) after tweets showed Jammu and Kashmir as a part of China.