Twitter is now legally chargeable for content material posted by its customers in India after failing to adjust to the nation’s new IT guidelines, the federal government stated in a authorized submitting. As reported by each Reuters and TechCrunch, India’s IT ministry argues in a submitting with New Delhi’s Excessive Courtroom that the social media agency has misplaced its authorized immunity after failing to adjust to new necessities imposed in Might. These embrace appointing a chief compliance officer, a grievance officer, and a contact particular person to answer requests from regulation enforcement 24 hours a day.

Reuters experiences that the courtroom submitting got here in response to allegations from a Twitter person that they’d been defamed by tweets posted on the platform, and that Twitter has not appointed the brand new…

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