Former Facebook employee deposes before Delhi assemblies committee

Former Facebook employee Mark S. Luckie deposed before Delhi assemblies committee on peace and harmony which is looking into complaints on the “role or complicity of Facebook officials in the Delhi riots” in February. Luckie gave insights on the entire organisational structure of Facebook globally as well as regionally. He said that top managerial posts at Facebook are given to people who have strong governmental associations or political affiliations.

The meeting on Thursday comes after Facebook officials declined to depose before the committee, which is looking into the social media platform’s alleged inaction to contain harmful content.

“Luckie affirmed that there has been a repeated interference by the top officials of the Facebook teams including their policy heads at the instance of the political parties upon the content moderation teams which has caused eventual compromise in the execution of their own community standards.