new delhi defending itself against accusation of political bias social media giant twitter said it is committed to principles of openness transparency and impartiality and said it does not review prioritise or enforce policies on basis of political ideology the statement by the mircoblogging site came against the backdrop of twitter india being called before a parliamentary standing committee on information techhnology on february 11 to respond to concerns over fake news and representations that the platform has been proactive in shutting probjp and rightwing handles every tweet and every account is treated impartially we apply our policies fairly and judiciously for all if there are false positive decisions these are not political statements of intent they are the basic human error rate of running the fastest most open conversational tool in history said the statement quoting colin cromwell global vppublic policy twitter asserting that the platform and its policies are never developed nor evolved on the basis of political ideology the statement said abuse and hateful conduct comes from accounts across the ideological spectrum and twitter will continue to take action when its rules are brokenexplaining its verification process twitter said it is working with indian political parties to crosscheck candidates elected officials and relevant party officials whose accounts will be active the parties themselves select the accounts for verificationtwitter verifies these accounts to empower healthy election conversations the statement said