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TLTP
NEW DELHI
Facebook has banned a member of India’s governing Hindu nationalist party for violating its policies covering violence and hate speech, after the social media giant was accused of political bias.
The company said on Thursday it had banned politician Raja Singh from Facebook and Instagram under its “dangerous individuals and organizations” policy. Raja Singh banned from Facebook and Instagram for anti-Muslim posts, after the social media giant accused of bias.
The world’s largest social media company is under fire after The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that its India policy chief Ankhi Das refused to apply the company’s hate speech policies to politicians from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other “Hindu nationalist individuals and groups”. Facebook ignored its hate speech policy and allowed anti-Muslim posts on its platform to avoid ruining the company’s relationship with India’s governing party, said the report by The Wall Street Journal.Singh, the BJP’s only legislator in the southern state of Telangana, is known for his anti-Muslim rhetoric.
The WSJ said the right-wing politician had demanded that Rohingya refugees be shot, called India’s Muslims traitors and threatened to demolish mosques in his Facebook posts and public speeches.
Earlier, an Indian parliamentary committee grilled Ajit Mohan, managing director of Facebook India, after the social media giant was accused of not acting against anti-Muslim posts on its platforms. TLT
