TWITTER SAYS IT BELIEVES IN IMPARTIALITY

New Delhi, Feb. 8: Faced with allegations of being politically biased in India, Twitter on Friday said it believes in impartiality and does not take any actions, such as blocking of accounts, based on political views. Twitter, which has been accused by supporters of the ruling BJP of being biased against the right-wing, said “abuse and hateful conduct comes from accounts across the ideological spectrum” and it will continue to take action when rules are broken on its platform.

Explaining how trending topics on Twitter work, the USbased microblogging platform said the velocity or the number of tweets in a given time period and not the total number of tweets decides what is trending.

The statement by Twitter comes days before its representatives are set to appear before a Parliamentary panel on information technology, which is perceived to have issued the summons to it as a reaction to concerns of supporters of the ruling dispensation.