IT minister comes down heavily on WhatsApp for sharing wrong map of India, platform apologies
Union Minister of State for Electronics and Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, came down like a ton of bricks on Whatsapp, directing the social media platform to remove the wrong map of India posted by it on Twitter.
The minister also issued a caveat for the companies, saying that if they want to continue their operation in India, they must use the correct map of the country.
“Dear Whatsapp – Request that you please fix the India map error as soon as possible,”[Sic] the minister wrote in a tweet.
“All platforms that do business in India and/or want to continue to do business in India, must use correct maps,” he further wrote.
Meanwhile, Whatsapp has retracted the tweet with the wrong map and has apologised on Twitter.
“Thank you Minister for pointing out the unintended error; we have promptly removed the stream, apologies. We will be mindful in the future, the company wrote on Twitter.”
Chandrasekhar, earlier this week, rebuked the Zoom CEO Eric Yuan for using the incorrect map. Later, Yuan later took down the tweet and wrote, “I recently took down a tweet that many of you had pointed out had issues with the map. Thank you for the feedback!!”
