Govt to Delhi HC: Twitter no longer an intermediary

The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) on Monday informed the Delhi High Court that microblogging site Twitter has not complied with the Information Technology Rules and therefore lost the immunity given to an intermediary under Section 79 of the IT Act.

In its affidavit, MeitY has said in spite of the three months’ time granted to all significant social media intermediaries to comply with the IT Rules 2021 having expired on May 26, Twitter has failed to fully comply with the same.