new delhi social media giant twitter tuesday said it is working collaboratively with the election commission of india and is taking a number of steps including setting up a crossfunctional team to ensure integrity and transparency on its platform ahead of general elections a day after his meeting with the parliamentary panel twitter global vicepresident of public policy colin crowell said the company is putting in place a dedicated crossfunctional team that works on site integrity and is prepared to deal with issues of manipulation india is important to twitter and this election is top priority for usthe meeting was substantive and respectfulso what i tried to convey to the committee yesterday was the seriousness with which we are undertaking a variety of activities to prepare for the elections crowell told twitter which was facing allegations of political bias on its platform has been asked by the parliamentary panel to ensure that the upcoming lok sabha polls are not influenced by foreign entities the american company is also said to have agreed to appoint a nodal officer to work with the election commission to address any issue that arises during the elections asked about the appointment of the nodal officer crowell said this is an ongoing conversation with the eci and that the company will have people in place that can respond to their requests and that process will be worked out prior to elections we are committed to working collaboratively and closely with the eci he asserted on allegations of political bias on twitters platform crowell said those were false any allegation that twitter factors in peoples political beliefs and perspectives in the development of our rules or the enforcement of our rules is false we believe strongly in impartiality and we enforce our rules impartially he said crowell also outlined that the company has recently launched its ads transparency centre atc in india to bring greater transparency into political spending here and that it is working proactively with political parties and candidates to verify their accounts ahead of the elections there have been concerns in some quarters over possible misuse of social media tools to influence elections the government has also been taking a strong view of misuse of social media platforms and is proposing to amend it rules to curb fake news and increase their accountability over the last few weeks facebook twitter and google have promised to infuse more transparency into political advertisements on their platforms and announced a slew of measures as part of their election integrity efforts twitter has in the past maintained it is committed to remaining unbiased and that its products as well as policies are never based on political ideology the microblogging site earlier this month stated that it believes in the impartiality and does not take any actions such as blocking of accounts based on political views twitter which has been accused by supporters of the ruling bjp of being biased against rightwing forces had stated that abuse and