Twitter on Friday, August 13 said its India MD Manish Maheshwari has moved to a bigger role at the company’s headquarters in the US. Twitter confirmed the move, without specifying any reason. Maheshwari, joined Twitter in April 2019 as Managing Director for the country operations, is moving into a new role based in San Francisco as Senior Director, Revenue Strategy and Operations focused on ‘New Market Entry’.
Twitter Vice President Japan and Asia Pacific Yu Sasamoto shared the development in a tweet. “Thank you to @manishm for your leadership of our Indian business over the past 2+ years. Congrats on your new US-based role in charge of revenue strategy and operations for new markets worldwide. Excited to see you lead this important growth opportunity for Twitter,” he said. As of now, Twitter India has not named a successor to Maheshwari, whose name came up time and again in cases related to non-compliance with Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules (or IT Rules) 2021. The Rules require significant social media intermediaries such as Twitter, who have more than 50 lakh users on their platforms, to appoint certain officials who can be held liable for content on the platform, and publish monthly compliance reports.
The departure of Maheshwari comes as Twitter has blocked accounts of Rahul Gandhi and many Congress leaders for violating their policy. Maheshwari had been named in at least three police complaints, ranging from showing an incorrect map of India to a video of alleged communal violence going viral, one of which even led to him filing a caveat in the Supreme Court. An FIR was registered against Maheswari in Uttar Pradesh in connection with a probe related to a video of an alleged hate crime.
