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Samiran Gupta, the head of policy for India and South Asia at social media platform X, has resigned, as per Reuters. This significant departure occurs in the lead-up to India’s elections and amidst the company’s ongoing legal battle with New Delhi regarding content removal, as per the news agency.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Reportedly, Gupta held the highest-ranking position for X, previously known as Twitter, in India, and was tasked with overseeing “critical content-related policy matters” and “advocating for Twitter’s stance in response to evolving policies while supporting the local sales team,” as stated on his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n
According to Gupta’s LinkedIn profile,<\/a> his tenure at X concluded in September. His profile indicates that he facilitated the transition in leadership for Twitter following the acquisition by Elon Musk’s X-Corp. Gupta had joined the company in February 2022, just eight months prior to Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc, adds the report.<\/p>\n X considers India a crucial market, boasting approximately 27 million users. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and various government officials are frequent users of the platform.<\/p>\n According to the same report, there are approximately 15 X employees in roles related to compliance and engineering in India. However, Gupta was the sole executive responsible for liaising with the government and political parties.<\/p>\n Interactions between X and government <\/a>and party officials would typically increase in intensity during the lead-up to elections, and India is set to hold a national election next year.<\/p>\n X is currently in the process of appealing an Indian court’s ruling, which stated that the company had not adequately adhered to government directives to remove specific content. X argues that this ruling could potentially empower New Delhi to further restrict content and expand the boundaries of censorship.<\/p>\n In September, India informed a court that X<\/a> is a platform that habitually fails to comply with directives, consistently disregarding numerous orders to remove content. This conduct has been seen as undermining the government’s authority and role.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \t<\/p>\n “Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels \ud83d\ude80<\/span> Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights!” Click here!<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n More<\/a> \n\t\tUpdated: 23 Sep 2023, 01:50 PM IST\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samiran Gupta, the head of policy for India and South Asia at social media platform X, has resigned, as per Reuters. This significant departure occurs in the lead-up to India’s elections and amidst the company’s ongoing legal battle with New Delhi regarding content removal, as per the news agency. Reportedly, Gupta held the highest-ranking position […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[188,183,185,186,187,184,189,150,182,190,157,10594],"class_list":["post-161464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-blockchain-tech","tag-blockchain-technology","tag-crypto-technology","tag-cryptocurrency-technology","tag-metaverse-technology","tag-nft-technology","tag-soul-bound-token","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-token-technology","tag-twitter","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161466,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161464\/revisions\/161466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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