Working closely with EC, setting up cross-functional team in India: Twitter
5 years, 10 months ago

Working closely with EC, setting up cross-functional team in India: Twitter

Live Mint  

Social media giant Twitter Tuesday said it is working "collaboratively" with the Election Commission of India and is taking a number of steps, including setting up a cross-functional team, to ensure integrity and transparency on its platform ahead of general elections. A day after his meeting with the parliamentary panel, Twitter Global Vice-President of Public Policy Colin Crowell said the company is putting in place a dedicated cross-functional team that works on site integrity and "is prepared to deal with issues of manipulation". "India is important to Twitter and this election is top priority for us.The meeting was substantive and respectful.So what I tried to convey to the Committee yesterday was the seriousness with which we are undertaking a variety of activities to prepare for the elections," Crowell told PTI. Crowell also outlined that the company has recently launched its Ads Transparency Centre in India to bring greater transparency into political spending here and that it is working proactively with political parties and candidates to verify their accounts ahead of the elections.

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INDIA likely to have common social media team
1 year, 4 months ago

INDIA likely to have common social media team

The Hindu  

Pooling their resources, the INDIA parties are likely to set up a joint social media team drawing manpower from each party. The idea is to propagate a common message and also to reach a bigger audience, spanning the current social media outreach of all the INDIA constituents. “Even without a common social media team, at least a few of the …

Elon Musk-owned Twitter fires more than 90% of India staff: Report
2 years, 2 months ago

Elon Musk-owned Twitter fires more than 90% of India staff: Report

Hindustan Times  

Twitter Inc. fired more than 90% of its staff in India over the weekend -- part of global reductions by new owner Elon Musk -- severely depleting its engineering and product staff in a potential growth market. About 70% of Twitter's jobs cut in India were from product and engineering team which worked on a global mandate The company employed …

Twitter appoints India compliance exec, yet to fill other roles to meet IT rules
3 years, 6 months ago

Twitter appoints India compliance exec, yet to fill other roles to meet IT rules

The Hindu  

Twitter Inc's India unit has appointed an interim chief compliance officer and said it will soon designate two other executives to comply with the country's new IT rules, the social media giant said in a court filing on Thursday. The Centre said in a court filing earlier this week that Twitter no more enjoys liability protection against user-generated content in …

Twitter vs Govt of India: Importance of SM and what is the road ahead
3 years, 6 months ago

Twitter vs Govt of India: Importance of SM and what is the road ahead

Op India  

Today, when the whole world is confronted with an unprecedented crisis due to the COVID19 pandemic, another crisis has emerged over the ‘penetrative’ role of social media platforms in India. Considering the kind of enormous outreach of social media, platforms such as Twitter have started to act arbitrarily to become a state within a state Twitter decided to defy an …

New IT rules | Twitter yet to share details with Indian government
3 years, 7 months ago

New IT rules | Twitter yet to share details with Indian government

The Hindu  

Twitter is yet to share details of their Chief Compliance Officer for the India market — a key requirement under the new IT Rules, with the government, a Ministry of Electronics and IT source said, adding that most other major social media intermediaries, including Google, Facebook and WhatApp had submitted compliance details. The Ministry of Electronics and IT had written …

Twitter requests for formal dialogue over ban on accounts, Govt responds via Koo
3 years, 11 months ago

Twitter requests for formal dialogue over ban on accounts, Govt responds via Koo

India TV News  

The government has responded to Twitter's request for a formal meeting over its order to take down 1,178 accounts for spreading misinformation around farmers' protests. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in a post shared on Koo app said that the Secretary IT will hold talks with Twitter's management. Earlier on Tuesday, Twitter said it is seeking formal dialogue …

Parliamentary panel asks Twitter for affidavit on geo-tagging glitch
4 years, 2 months ago

Parliamentary panel asks Twitter for affidavit on geo-tagging glitch

The Hindu  

The Joint Committee of Parliament on the Data Protection Bill sought an affidavit from Twitter Inc, the U.S.-based parent company of the social media platform, asking them to explain why it had shown Ladakh as a part of China, a senior member of the panel said on Wednesday. The decision to seek an affidavit from the parent company was taken …

Facebook senior officials to appear before parliamentary panel on March 6
5 years, 10 months ago

Facebook senior officials to appear before parliamentary panel on March 6

Live Mint  

Senior officials of Facebook will appear on March 6 before a parliamentary panel to outline the specific measures undertaken to ensure safety of users on its platform after being summoned by the committee, sources said. "We deeply appreciate the opportunity to answer questions from the honourable parliamentary committee and to outline the specific steps we have taken to help ensure …

Lok Sabha election key priority for us: Twitter
5 years, 10 months ago

Lok Sabha election key priority for us: Twitter

Live Mint  

Twitter on Thursday said the 2019 Lok Sabha election is a key priority for the company and it deeply respects the integrity of the election process while being committed to provide a service that fosters and facilitates free and open democratic debate. "The 2019 Lok Sabha is a priority for the company and our dedicated cross functional team is working …

Twitter feels the absence of strong India leadership
5 years, 10 months ago

Twitter feels the absence of strong India leadership

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The summon by a parliamentary panel to microblogging platform Twitter Inc.’s chief executive officer Jack Dorsey is a reminder of how the lack of strong local leadership can spell trouble for global social media platforms, which have the potential to shape the opinions of millions of users. Much like its competitor Facebook’s messaging platform WhatsApp earlier, Twitter currently …

Is India ready to grill Twitter and send a strong message before elections?
5 years, 11 months ago

Is India ready to grill Twitter and send a strong message before elections?

Live Mint  

After US President Donald Trump slammed Twitter for "shadow banning" Republicans last year — which the micro-blogging platform said happened owing to "technical glitch" — the company is now in the thick of a similar controversy in India. The allegation is that Twitter has bias against "rightwing" accounts as general elections loom — serious enough for the government to call …

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