New IT rules: Major social media firms share details, Twitter yet to do so

“Twitter has not but despatched the small print of the chief compliance officer to the ministry,” the supply stated.

Some main social media corporations, together with Telegram, LinkedIn, Google, Fb, WhatsApp, Koo and Sharechat, have shared particulars of their chief compliance officer, nodal contact individual and grievance officer with the ministry of electronics and IT (Meity), displaying they’re at the least partly in compliance with the brand new guidelines for intermediaries which got here into pressure on Might 26.

Twitter, nonetheless, remains to be to submit a report of compliance with any a part of the foundations, official sources stated.

In line with the sources, after the federal government got here down closely on Twitter on Thursday and accused it of undermining the nation’s legal guidelines, the microblogging platform despatched a communication late on Thursday evening, sharing particulars of a lawyer working in a regulation agency in India as its nodal contact individual and grievance officer. However the guidelines require that these designated officers of the numerous social media firms should be workers of the corporate and resident in India.

“Twitter has not but despatched the small print of the chief compliance officer to the ministry,” the supply stated.

The federal government and Twitter have been at loggerheads relating to the “manipulated media” tag given by Twitter to some tweets on an alleged Congress toolkit used to focus on the Centre over its Covid-19 dealing with.

Twitter had criticised the brand new IT guidelines, whereas additionally calling the Delhi Police’s go to to its places of work earlier through the week as a type of “intimidation” and stated it was involved in regards to the “potential menace to freedom of expression”.

In a letter issued to all vital social media intermediaries, the federal government had sought info relating to the app/web site falling inside the scope of a social media middleman, particulars of a chief compliance officer, nodal contact individual, resident grievance officer and bodily contact tackle in India.

The brand new guidelines mandate intermediaries like WhatsApp to determine the primary originator of messages deemed mischievous by authorities, whereas others like Fb and Twitter want to tug down illegal content material inside 36 hours of being flagged.