Twitter India Chief Moves to New US Role After Criticism Over Compliance

Twitter’s India chief, Manish Maheshwari, will take up a brand new inside position within the United States, the corporate stated on Friday, a transfer that comes after months of tussle between the US big and the Indian authorities over compliance points.

Maheshwari will turn into Twitter’s senior director of income technique and operations centered on new market entry, based mostly out of San Francisco, the corporate stated in an announcement.

Though Twitter gave no causes for Maheshwari’s transfer within the assertion, an inside employees memo seen by Reuters thanked him for his work throughout “extraordinarily challenging times” in India, with out elaborating. Twitter declined to touch upon the memo.

New Delhi has repeatedly criticised Twitter in latest months for not swiftly complying with the nation’s new IT guidelines that required it to rent compliance officers by May. The US agency accomplished the required hiring and complied with the brand new guidelines this month, the federal government has stated.

The new guidelines, which turned efficient end-May, are aimed toward regulating content material on social media and making corporations act extra swiftly on authorized requests to take away posts.

Twitter additionally confronted a number of ongoing police instances, with some naming Maheshwari, for allegedly hurting sentiments and selling little one pornography. He additionally needed to search court docket aid in a minimum of one case the place he was requested to look for police questioning in northern Uttar Pradesh state.

The inside employees memo stated that “instead of a single country director, our wonderful India leadership council will guide and support you all as a team moving forward.”

Twitter’s struggles in India, together with the regulatory scrutiny of different US tech corporations akin to Facebook’s WhatsApp and Amazon.com, have damage the enterprise atmosphere in a key development market, prompting some firms to rethink enlargement plans, Reuters has reported.

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