Demand within Facebook to denounce ‘anti-Muslim bigotry’

Facebook and its top lobbying executive in India, Ankhi Das, are facing questions internally from employees over how political content is regulated in its biggest market, according to sources with direct knowledge and internal posts seen by Reuters.

The world’s largest social network has been battling a public-relations and political crisis in India since The Wall Street Journal reported that Das had opposed applying the company’s hate-speech rules to a BJP legislator who had in posts called Muslims traitors.

In the US and around the world, Facebook employees are raising questions about whether adequate procedures and content regulation practices were being followed by the India team, sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters.