Report suggests Facebook gave fillip to Modi’s election campaign

The Wall Street Journal on Monday published what the American newspaper said were excerpts from internal communications of Facebook officials that suggest that the social media company had helped the BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections by lighting “a fire to his (Narendra Modi’s) social media campaign and the rest is of course history”.

Also on Monday, a Delhi Assembly panel probing Facebook’s alleged role in the February 2020 riots that killed 53 people said the company should be made a co-accused in the police investigation, after hearing deposition that alleged that the social media network had “sheltered hate against minority communities”.