The closed-door hearing followed accusations in newspaper reports that Facebook was allowing anti-Muslim hate speech on the platform and that its top policy official in India had shown favouritism toward Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party. The social media giant has denied the allegations.India is Facebook's largest market with nearly 328 million users. Facebook also owns WhatsApp, which has more than 400 million users in India.
On Tuesday, technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and said the platform was censoring content posted by right-wing users. Two Facebook spokeswomen did not immediately comment. On Aug. 21, the company denied any bias toward Modi's party and said it was "open, transparent and non-partisan."
A 2019 analysis by Equality Labs, a South Asia research organization, showed that groups sharing anti-Muslim content on Facebook included supporters of Modi's party or were linked to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organization and the ideological parent of the BJP. It found that 93% of the hate speech reported to Facebook was not removed.
calling out others for bias is beyond my level comprehension at this moment.
Facebook is hate speech.
Indians being racist? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO thats totally impossible....nooooo way. lol.