Centre on Tuesday hit back at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey who had claimed that India had threatened to shut down the social networking site. Jack Dorsey, who quit as Twitter CEO in 2021, had alleged of receiving 'many requests' from India to censor accounts critical of the government and those reporting on farmers' protests, as well as threats of shutting down the platform.

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Tuesday in a strong rebuttal termed Dorsey's claims as an 'outright lie.' "What he has said is an outright lie. Twitter is a company that believed that it was not necessary for it to comply with Indian laws. Govt of India has been very clear from the beginning that all companies that operate in India have to comply with Indian laws," Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.