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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will not appear before parliamentary panel
22 Feb 2019
Despite the Indian government summoning Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to appear before the Parliamentary Committee on IT on February 25, Twitter has said that Dorsey will not attend the hearing.
Instead, the micro-blogging site will dispatch Colin Crowell, Twitter's Global Vice President of Public Policy to attend the hearing on 'safeguarding citizen rights on social/online news media platforms'.
Here are the details.
Earlier, the government had explicitly asked Dorsey to attend
Details
Earlier, Twitter India representatives, including Director of Policy Mahima Kaul, had met with the committee on February 11.
However, despite the meeting, the committee took a unanimous decision to not negotiate with Twitter till Dorsey himself or a senior member of Twitter's global team with "decision making authority regarding Twitter's operations in India" met with it.
Twitter will have to answer to accusations of political bias
Hearing
Now that Crowell is slated to attend the hearing in front of the 31-member panel on Monday, he will have to answer to the government's accusations of Twitter being "slow" in removing "objectionable content" and "political bias" from its platform.
The panel will be headed by BJP MP Anurag Thakur.
However, Crowell has claimed that Twitter is not politically biased.
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