Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad writes to Facebook’s Zuckerberg. Read full text here

At a time when we are all collectively battling a global pandemic, let me share my best wishes for you and your family members’ well-being.

I am writing this letter to raise serious concerns, some of which we have also raised in the past with senior officials of Facebook.

I have often heard you and your senior management talk about the general benefits of connectivity, and more specifically in the context of your products to the global community. Facebook’s stated mission is to give people the power to build communities and bring the world closer. The global scale achieved by the products of the Facebook group make it one of the prime movers in this goal of achieving connected communities across the world.