Delhi Assembly Panel gets plaints against FB over hateful content

The Delhi Legislative Assembly’s committee on Peace and Harmony has received multiple complaints addressed to its Chairman Raghav Chadha underscoring the alleged instances of intentional and deliberate inaction by Facebook officials against hateful content in India out of vested interests.

The complainants have also requested the Committee to interfere and ask Facebook to enforce its policies against inflammatory and hateful contents and alleged larger conspiracy involving said social media platform, with respect to the certain information obtained from the news report published by The Wall Street Journal on August 14.

“It is alleged in the complaints that the Facebook, despite its comprehensive policies and regulations on curbing unabated dissemination of hateful and offensive content, has been turning a blind eye to mass manufacturing and propagation of vile,