Twitter is now complying with India’s new IT guidelines, New Delhi advised a court docket Tuesday, in a transfer that’s anticipated to ease months-long stress between the American social media community and the federal government of the important thing abroad market.

A lawyer representing the Indian authorities advised the Delhi High Court that Twitter’s latest steps — appointment of chief compliance officer, nodal contact particular person and resident grievance officer within the nation — have made the social community “prima facie” compliant with the brand new regulation.

A Twitter spokesperson in India didn’t instantly return a textual content.

India’s new IT guidelines, which have been unveiled in February this year, mandates important social media corporations, amongst different issues, to nominate officers to deal with on-ground issues within the nation.

Facebook and Google complied with this requirement in May, when the proposed guidelines went into impact within the South Asian market.

Twitter, which was dealing with warmth from the Indian authorities for not blocking some tweets that the Indian authorities had deemed objectionable, had requested further few months to adjust to the brand new guidelines and within the meantime vacated the required roles with non permanent workers.

Tension has been brewing between the 2 for a number of months. Twitter labeled a tweet from Sambit Patra, the spokesperson of India’s ruling occasion BJP, in May as “manipulated media.” Days later, a particular squad of Delhi police that investigates terrorism and different crimes made a surprise visit to two of Twitter’s offices within the nation to hunt details about Twitter’s rationale to time period Patra’s tweets as manipulated.

Twitter on the time stated it was “concerned by recent events regarding our employees in India and the potential threat to freedom of expression for the people we serve.”

The agency’s slow-efforts to adjust to the brand new IT guidelines had cost the firm liability protection in the country final month, the Indian authorities stated earlier. Internet companies get pleasure from what’s broadly known as “safe harbor” safety that say that tech platforms received’t be held chargeable for the issues their customers submit or share on-line.

The new guidelines additionally require important social media corporations working encrypted messaging companies to plot a strategy to hint originator of messages for particular circumstances. Several corporations together with Facebook’s WhatsApp and Signal haven’t complied with this requirement. WhatsApp has sued the Indian government over this requirement.

This is a growing story. More to observe…