Question: Who has been appointed Grievance Officer for India by Twitter in July 2021?
(a) Sanjay Lavasa
(b) Achyut Pandey
(c) Dharmendra Chatur
(d) Vinay Prakash
Answer: (d)
Related facts:
- Social media giant Twitter has appointed Vinay Prakash as the Resident Grievance Officer (RGO) for India.
- Earlier,California-based Jeremy Kessel was appointed as the Grievance Officer for India.
- The appointment came in compliance of the new Information Technology Rules, 2021 under which it is mandated to appoint a grievance officer for issues redressal.
- As per the new IT rules in India, social media platforms with over 50 lakh users are mandated to appoint three key personnel namely chief compliance officer, nodal officer and grievance officer, and all these three personnel have to be residents in India.