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Fearing Retaliation, Facebook Did Not Act Against Bajrang Dal, Says Report
14 Dec 2020
Facebook’s questionable position on anti-minority activity in India has come under the scanner of The Wall Street Journal again, with the newspaper reporting that the social media giant di
K Raveendran
Ankhi Das’s Exit from Facebook Is Not Enough for Indian Users
01 Nov 2020
The WSJ report highlighted how important the Indian market was for the business of Facebook, as the platform is banned in China, the only other country with the potential of a billion customers.
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Delhi Riots: No Coercive Action Against Facebook VP Till Oct 15 over Assembly Panel Summons, Says SC
23 Sep 2020
Delhi Assembly's peace and harmony committee had issued a notice to Facebook India’s vice president and managing director in connection with complaints accusing the social media giant of deliberately…
Newsclick Team
The Not-So-Invisible Hand of Facebook in Indian politics
04 Sep 2020
Senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakuta and Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha talk about the recent reports on Facebook's actions and affiliations in India.
Tikender Singh Panwar
Ideological Malaise to State Intervention: BJP Only a Tool to Carry Agenda
02 Sep 2020
Ankhi Das et al and their intervention are not just restricted to the partnership established between the BJP and Facebook or likewise, but are part of the larger agenda that they want to implement…
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Facebook Removed 14 out of 44 Pages Flagged by BJP Ahead of 2019 Elections, Says Report
01 Sep 2020
The party had claimed that the pages were opposed to the party, as they were “in violation of expected standards” and carried posts “not in line with facts”.
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Report Says Top Facebook Executive Openly Backed Modi on Internal Company Group
31 Aug 2020
“We lit a fire to his (Modi) social media campaign and the rest is of course history (sic),” Das reportedly wrote on the group a day prior to when results for the Lok Sabha Elections in 2014 were…
Subhash Gatade
Corporate Social Media in India: Sell Hate, Enjoy Profit
23 Aug 2020
The bias that social media platforms such as Facebook display reflects their own world-view as much as it does the regimes they support.
Prabir Purkayastha
Can BJP’s Politics and Facebook’s Business Thrive without Hate?
22 Aug 2020
The problem of hate news is built into the genes of big digital monopolies like Facebook. We need to break up these monopolies and regulate them as the new public utilities of the digital age.
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Facebook Employees Take on Bosses on Hate Speech Tolerance in India
21 Aug 2020
This follows WSJ’s expose of how the social media behemoth has not been taking action against several BJP leaders’ hate content.