Final word is not with public policy team: Facebook

Facebook India, which is facing intense scrutiny for allegedly allowing its public policy team to influence how hate-speech rules are applied, said on Tuesday that content moderation is enforced by an independent team and while other employees can offer their views, they can’t sway decisions.

“Public policy in India, while being one stakeholder who can express one point of view among many voices, but they did not have any decision-making power in this. The content policy team that is on the hook for enforcing content decisions in India is separate and independent from the public policy team,” Ajit Mohan, vice-president and managing director of Facebook India, said in an interview.