Progress made but need to do more, says Facebook India’s Ajit Mohan on tackling hate speech

Around a week after The Wall Street Journal’s report over Facebook not taking action against posts by BJP leader T Raja Singh that allegedly promoted hate speech, the company’s top executive in India took to the social networking site to explain that Facebook is “open, transparent and non-partisan.” “Over the last few days, we have been accused of bias in the way we enforce our policies. We take allegations of bias incredibly seriously, and want to make it clear that we denounce hate and bigotry in any form,” said the former Hotstar CEO and the current Facebook India Head Ajit Mohan in a Facebook post on Friday. He added that while the company has made progress on tackling hate speech on its platform, but “we need to do more”.