Twitter, IT Ministry To Brief Lawmakers Today Over Safety, Rights

The parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, will hear views from Twitter and the IT Ministry on the subject, with special emphasis on women's security in the digital space.

Twitter India representatives and officials of the Information Technology Ministry officials been called before a parliamentary panel today to examine the issue of safeguarding citizens' rights and preventing misuse of online news media platforms. The parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, will hear their views on the subject, with special emphasis on women's security in the digital space. Top officials of Twitter are being called at a time when the government has clashed with the American social media giant over a range of issues including its stand on the new IT rules. Twitter also faces, including inciting communal hate, over posts on an assault on a Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on June 5. On Wednesday, Twitter, several journalists and Congress leaders were named in an FIR in Ghaziabad over "provoking communal sentiments" with posts sharing the elderly man's allegations.