Twitter CEO, officials decline to appear before Parliamentary Committee

February 09, 2019 13:51

Twitter CEO and top officials have declined to appear before the Parliamentary Committee, said sources.

The social media giant was summoned before the parliamentary panel to present its views on "safeguarding citizens' rights on social/online news media platforms."

The notice was tweeted by Anurag Thakur who heads the Parliamentary Committee on Information Technology and is a member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

Local news outlets reported the notice was issued after a volunteer group supposedly wrote to the committee, alleging that Twitter was biased against right-wing and pro-BJP accounts.

Twitter was asked to appear before the committee on February 11 at 3 pm along with representatives from ministry of electronics and information technology.

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