Twitter has transferred India head Manish Maheshwari, towards whom an FIR was registered in Uttar Pradesh about a probe associated with a video of an alleged hate crime, to the United States. While the organisation did now no longer specify any motive for the change, it stated Maheshwari will flow to the United States as Senior Director (Revenue Strategy and Operations) and awareness on new markets in his new position.
Twitter Vice President Japan and the Asia Pacific Yu Sasamoto shared the improvement in a tweet.
“Thank you to @manishm for your management of our Indian commercial enterprise over the last 2+ years. Congrats on your new US-primarily based position in price of sales method and operations for brand spanking new markets worldwide. Excited to peer you lead this vital increase possibility for Twitter,” he stated.
When contacted, Twitter showed the improvement and stated Maheshwari is “stepping into a brand new position primarily based totally in San Francisco as Senior Director, Revenue Strategy and Operations targeted on New Market Entry”.
The organisation did now no longer divulge info across the succession plan after the Maheshwari movements to the United States.
Before becoming a member of Twitter, Maheshwari changed into the CEO of Network18 Digital. He has additionally laboured with corporations which include Flipkart and P&G, amongst others.
Twitter has been going through flak over the last many months for its diverse moves taken on tweets and bills of high-profile customers, in addition, to put off in compliance with the IT policies that got here into impact in May this year.
In June, an FIR changed into registered towards Maheshwari and a few others about a probe associated with a video of an alleged hate crime that went viral on social media.
The US-primarily based microblogging platform – which has an anticipated 1.75 crore customers in India – had courted controversy over the brand new social media policies, and the Indian authorities had faced Twitter over planned defiance and failure to conform with the IT policies, notwithstanding repeated reminders.
On August 10, the Centre had advised the Delhi High Court that Twitter changed into ‘prima facies in compliance with the brand new IT policies via way of means of appointing a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), Resident Grievance Officer (RGO) and Nodal Contact Person on an everlasting basis.