Political slugfest between Congress and BJP over Facebook: The story so far

Well, the Facebook row has now intensified into a full-blown war, with the two main parties in India–the BJP and the Congress– making allegations and counter-allegations over the issue.

The political slugfest started after Tharoor’s announcement that the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology would like to hear Facebook’s views on the report published in Wall Street Journal on Saturday. The report mentioned that Facebook overlooked its hate speech policies in the cases of Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party MLA T Raja Singh and three other “Hindu nationalist individuals and groups” in order to safeguard the social media platform’s business prospects.