Twitter officials face questions by House panel for blocking Amit Shah’s account

Twitter representatives appearing before a parliamentary panel on Thursday were questioned on why they blocked the account of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in November.

Members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology asked Twitter executives under what authority they placed a temporary ban on Shah’s handle.

Twitter officials explained that it was because the social media site’s software “inadvertently” caught a “copyright violation” in a photo posted on the handle, sources in the panel said