Parliamentary panel summons Twitter officials over safeguarding citizens’ rights on social media
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Parliamentary panel summons Twitter officials over safeguarding citizens’ rights on social media

The panel has also called representatives of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to appear before it.

   
The Twitter Inc. logo displayed outside the company's headquarters in San Francisco | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Twitter Inc.'s headquarters in San Francisco | David Paul Morris | Bloomberg file photo

The panel has also called representatives of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to appear before it.

New Delhi: The parliamentary panel on information technology has summoned Twitter officials over the issue of safeguarding citizens’ rights on social media platforms, its head Anurag Thakur said Tuesday.

The panel has also called representatives of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to appear before it on the issue during its meeting scheduled for February 11.


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Thakur tweeted the agenda of the panel’s meeting to be held next week, saying the panel has called representatives of Twitter to appear before the panel on the issue.

He also sought views and suggestions from the general public on the matter.