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September 2, 2020 03:32 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hbTTHy_NEgk/facebook-staff-accused-of-blocking-right-wing-views-in-india
Facebook Staff Accused of Blocking Right-Wing Views in India
India's Minister of Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad accused some Facebook employees of blocking right-wing views in the nation, escalating a battle over content moderation in the social media company's largest market by users. From a report: Prasad made the allegations in a letter to Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday. The note comes two weeks after the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. firm failed to remove alleged hate speech from a lawmaker belonging to Prasad's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. Facebook is grappling with a backlash in India after the Journal reported Facebook deleted anti-Muslim posts by BJP lawmaker Raja Singh and three other Hindu nationalists only after being questioned by the paper. Current and former Facebook employees told the paper that Facebook's head of public policy, Ankhi Das, opposed the deletion of the posts despite being flagged internally as breaching standards. Prasad also alleged that Facebook tried to influence public opinion before India's 2019 elections.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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