Congress again writes to Zuckerberg on ‘Facebook-BJP nexus’, hate speech probe

Referring to a TIME magazine report on the alleged ties between Facebook and the BJP, the Congress Saturday wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the second time in a month, asking if steps have been taken by the social media giant regarding charges of favouring the ruling party on its platform.

The Congress’ letter to Zuckerberg followed an article in Time magazine on “how (Facebook) enforces its hate speech policies when the accused are members” of the ruling party, and the alleged misuse of Facebook and WhatsApp to “spread hate speech and misinformation that have been blamed for helping to incite deadly attacks on minority groups”.