According to a notice of the standing committee meeting on June 18, its agenda is to “hear the views of representatives of Twitter followed by evidence of representatives Electronics Technology on safeguarding citizens’ rights and prevention of misuse of social/online news media platforms including special emphasis on women security in the digital space.”
The meeting notice was issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
Earlier this month, the central government had issued “one last notice” to Twitter asking it to comply with the new Information Technology rules.
Twitter and the Centre are at loggerheads on several issues for the last few months.
Twitter had faced backlash, when it had briefly removed the blue tick verification badge from the personal account of Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu and of several senior RSS functionaries including its chief Mohan Bhagwat.
