Delhi panel to initiate proceedings on Facebook’s ‘inaction on hateful content’ on Tuesday

A Delhi Assembly committee on peace and harmony will initiate on Tuesday proceedings in connection with complaints about Facebook’s alleged “deliberate and intentional inaction to contain hateful content” in India, according to an official statement issued on Monday.

The development comes in the backdrop of a report published in the Wall Street Journal recently, citing interviews with unnamed Facebook insiders to claim that one of its senior India policy executives intervened in internal communication to stop a permanent ban on a BJP MLA from Telangana after he allegedly made communally charged posts.

According to the statement, after careful deliberation on allegations levelled in the complaints received, the panel, chaired by AAP MLA Raghav Chadha, has decided to take immediate cognisance of this issue.