Jeremy Kessel is a senior director of Global Legal Policy at Twitter. According to his Linkedin profile, he has been working with Twitter since 2010.
He started his stint with Twitter as a policy executive back in December 2009, and after three consecutive promotions he was made the Global Policy Director in 2016.
Kessel completed his Bachelors in Arts from University of Colorado in 2003, after which he pursued law at Santa Clara University of Law.
Kessel has also authored several articles on transparency and how tweets are removed from the platform. He wrote how the platform provides transparency into legal requests made by governments to remove a tweet from its social media platform.
Is His Appointment Problematic?
Twitter had appointed Kessel as an interim GRO on 31 May. However, a Delhi High Court advocate Amit Acharya in a petition had claimed that in doing so, the social media platform was in non-compliance with the IT Rules 2021.
Acharya, in his petition, stated that Twitter’s…