Congress seeks JPC probe against FB after hate speech revelations

The Congress Monday revived its demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe against Facebook following the revelation that the social media giant failed to curb hate speech, misinformation and inflammatory posts in India despite being aware of it.

The main Opposition party, which had a run-in with Facebook earlier, again alleged a quid pro quo between the social media giant and the BJP government.

The Congress alleged that Facebook has reduced itself to “fakebook” in India, reiterated its charge that sympathisers of the BJP have “infiltrated” Facebook, and accused the social media giant of acting like an “ally”.