After Twitter, House panel may summon Facebook and WhatsApp

The parliamentary standing committee on information technology is expected to summon Facebook and WhatsApp as part of its discussions over safeguarding citizen rights on social media, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.

They are likely to be called in March, as the panel first wants to complete its postponed meeting with Twitter, they said. The panel has asked Twitter’s top global executives to appear before it on February 25, after the microblogging site’s chief executive skipped an earlier meeting called by it.

Summons are yet to be sent to Facebook and WhatsApp, they said. Before that, it intends to focus extensively on Twitter.