A top Facebook India official turned a blind eye to hate speech by a BJP leader and three other Hindu nationalist individuals and groups to avoid damaging the social media platforms business prospects, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The newspaper reported that citing business imperatives, Facebooks top public policy executive in India, Ankhi Das, is opposed applying hate-speech rules to at least four individuals and groups linked with the BJP despite the fact that they were flagged internally for promoting or participating in violence.
Das, the public policy director of Facebooks India, South and Central Asia division since 2011, has the task of overseeing a team that decides what content is allowed on the platform, the WSJ reported in its article entitled Facebook's Hate-Speech Rules Collide With Indian Politics.
The WSJ report referred to a hate speech calling for violence against minorities allegedly by Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh, a BJP MLA in the Telangana Assembly who has made communally provocative statements. The current and former Facebook employees said Das intervention on behalf of Singh is part of a broader pattern of favoritism by Facebook toward Mr Modis Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindu hard-liners, as per the WSJ report.
https://www.firstpost.com/india/facebook-ignored-hate-speech-rules-on-bjp-linked-posts-to-protect-its-business-says-wsj-report-8715901.html
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A top Facebook India official turned a blind eye to hate speech by a BJP leader and three other Hindu nationalist individuals and groups to avoid damaging the social media platforms business prospects, The Wall Street Journal reported. The newspaper reported that citing business imperatives, Facebooks top public policy executive in India, Ankhi Das, is opposed applying hate-speech rules to at least four individuals and groups linked with the BJP despite the fact that they were flagged internally for promoting or participating in violence. Das, the public policy director of Facebooks India, South and Central Asia division since 2011, has the task of overseeing a team that decides what content is allowed on the platform, the WSJ reported in its article entitled Facebook's Hate-Speech Rules Collide With Indian Politics. The WSJ report referred to a hate speech calling for violence against minorities allegedly by Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh, a BJP MLA in the Telangana Assembly who has made communally provocative statements. The current and former Facebook employees said Das intervention on behalf of Singh is part of a broader pattern of favoritism by Facebook toward Mr Modis Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindu hard-liners, as per the WSJ report. https://www.firstpost.com/india/facebook-ignored-hate-speech-rules-on-bjp-linked-posts-to-protect-its-business-says-wsj-report-8715901.html