Flip-flop on Assam minister’s Facebook post

Facebook has restored a post by Assam cabinet minister and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma claiming that a crowd had raised “Pakistan zindabad” slogans while receiving AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal at Silchar airport on Thursday.

On Saturday, Facebook had flagged the video as “false information” after getting it “checked” by an independent fact-checker organisation Boom Live, which said “no such slogan was raised by AIUDF supporters”.

The flip-flop by the social networking platform has been questioned by the Opposition Congress which filed an FIR on Monday seeking Sarma’s arrest for indulging in activities “prejudicial to communal harmony” through the “false” post.