House panel grills Twitter over IT rules

The parliamentary panel on information technology headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor grilled officials from social media company Twitter for almost two hours over its “lack of compliance with the new intermediary guidelines”, and asked about the application of the “manipulated media” tag, with reference to its use on posts by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, people familiar with the matter said.

Immediately after, officials from the ministry of electronics and information technology appeared before the panel and said that Twitter was not in compliance with the new rules, the people added on condition of anonymity.