Amid a tussle between the Union government and Twitter over the brand new IT policies, officials of the microblogging site on Friday deposed before a parliamentary panel chaired by means of Congress' Shashi Tharoor over stopping misuse of social media.
earlier this month, the Centre issued a observe to Twitter giving it one remaining danger to "without delay" observe the new IT rules and warned that failure to stick to the norms will cause the platform dropping exemption from legal responsibility beneath the IT Act.
The Parliamentary status Committee on information and generation, chaired by means of Tharoor, had final week summoned Twitter over issues related to misuse of the platform and safety of residents' rights.
Twitter India's public policy supervisor Shagufta Kamran and criminal suggest Ayushi Kapoor deposed before the panel on Friday.
Twitter and the Centre had been at loggerheads over several troubles for the previous couple of months.
The microblogging website had faced backlash when it in brief eliminated the 'blue tick' verification badge from the non-public account of Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu and of numerous senior RSS functionaries, along with its leader Mohan Bhagwat.
earlier, Delhi Police had despatched a notice to Twitter, searching for an evidence of how it defined an alleged "Congress toolkit" in opposition to the relevant government as manipulated media.
The police reportedly had additionally questioned Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari on can also 31 and visited the Twitter India offices in Delhi and Gurgaon on may 24 over the toolkit difficulty.
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