Parliamentary panel summons top bosses of Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram

The agenda of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT for the March 6 meeting is to hear these companies' views on safeguarding citizens' rights on social/online news media platforms

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has asked the top bosses at Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to appear before it on March 6. Last week, the same panel had kicked up a storm after it sent out a similar summons to microblogging platform Twitter. Refusing to meet any local representative, the panel asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to show up or send a senior global executive from the San Francisco-based social networking firm.

While questions were being raised over why Twitter was being singled out, the committee had recently said that it would call the other social media companies