![]() Twitter on Tuesday said it has appointed an interim chief compliance officer and the details of the appointment will be shared directly with the IT ministry. ![]() ![]() The official added that details of the compliance officer’s appointment were yet to be shared with the government. But Twitter has failed to meet even its own deadline of a week to make the appointments as per the new rules, the official said. The official said, as a gesture of goodwill, the government gave Twitter extra time to comply with the rules. The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules were notified in February and came into force on May 25. ![]() In any case, filed after May 26, Twitter cannot say it is an intermediary and claim exception.” “Now, if there is a case in court, Twitter cannot seek safe harbour under the Information Technology Act. New Delhi: Twitter will be considered an intermediary once it follows the new Information Technology (IT) rules and it will no longer be protected from penal action under Section 79 of the IT Act, which absolves social media firms of liability for third party content, if it did not do so, a government official said on Wednesday.
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