Facebook India officers Tuesday deposed earlier than the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology on the problem of misuse of social media platforms.
Facebook and Google officers had been summoned by parliamentary panel chaired by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
Facebook’s nation public coverage director Shivnath Thukral and common counsel Namrata Singh deposed earlier than the panel on Tuesday.
The agenda of the parliamentary panel assembly is to safeguard residents’ rights and forestall the misuse of social/on-line information media platforms.
Earlier Facebook representatives had knowledgeable the parliamentary panel that their firm coverage doesn’t permit their officers to attend in-person conferences due to their Covid-related protocol.
But Chairman Shashi Tharoor conveyed to Facebook that its officers must seem in-person for the reason that parliament secretariat doesn’t permit any digital conferences.
The Parliamentary Committee on IT will even summon representatives of YouTube and different Social Media Intermediaries within the coming weeks over the problem.
Facebook and Google representatives had been referred to as days after Twitter officers deposed earlier than the panel.
In the final assembly, a number of members of the panel had categorically instructed Twitter that the rule of land is supreme not the social media platform’s insurance policies.
