Scanner on FB over poll code on ads

Facebook secured an industry body’s help to pre-empt the Election Commission setting strict social media rules before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls under a high court’s prodding, documents given by a whistleblower to America’s stock exchange regulator appear to suggest.

Excerpts from purported Facebook memos published by two news organisations indicate the social media giant was able to put the onus of reporting violations on the poll panel, and not take action on its own like it does in the US.

These excerpts are purportedly from redacted copies of internal memos that former Facebook data scientist Frances Haugen has submitted to America’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).