Mahima Kaul appointed as Public Policy Head, Twitter India


Twitter India has appointed Mahima Kaul as Public Policy Head. Kaul has accepted her new role effective since last week and will be based out of Delhi.

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Raheel Khursheed, Twitter’s news, politics and government head officially announced Kaul’s appointment on Twitter. “Welcoming the awesome @misskaul to the Flock. It is a great day,” read his tweet. Prior to joining Twitter, Kaul lead cyber and new media initiatives at the Observer Research Foundation, a think-tank. She has worked in the past with Index on Censorship- a UK based magazine, The Open Communication Foundation, Digital empowerment Foundation and The Indian Express.

She has written extensively on different platforms on Internet governance issues, information and communications technology, cyber security, digital inclusion and internet freedom. Twitter has been striving hard to make its platform more and more secure from online abuse and cyber threats. In February this year, the micro blogging site released new features to report abuse and in April it updated its policies to curb online abuse and violent threats.

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