The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) has said it will approach the Centre over the use of the name of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in a social media content takedown request allegedly submitted by the Andhra Pradesh Police.
However, the platform later clarified that the request was submitted using an official Guntur Urban Police government email address and was not sent by the US agency. The YSR Congress demanded that the Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police explain who authorised the request, the legal basis for it, the FIR numbers and sections invoked, the posts allegedly violating the law, and whether any court had directed their removal. Fake identity, real threat to democracy. Mr.
The party has alleged that a request to X by the Andhra Pradesh Police, concerning posts related to an incident in Guntur, was identified with “FBI” in the organisation field. It said it will take the matter to the Ministry of External Affairs and other central agencies. X initially notified users that the request had come from the “FBI”, according to him. The platform said the reference to “FBI” resulted from information entered in the request. A senior Guntur police official in Amaravati accepted that the reference was a “clerical error” and an “inadvertent mistake”, maintaining that there was no intention to misrepresent the identity of Andhra Pradesh Police. “Red Book Governance” goes global; now featuring the Andhra Pradesh Police posing as the FBI! Chandrababu Naidu Garu, is this policing, or state-sponsored deception aimed at politically motivated harassment,” Reddy asked, calling the episode “the most deplorable act that tarnishes the reputation” of the state and country.
