The Congressional party wrote on Saturday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the second time in 15 days, asking him to specify the steps his company is taking to investigate charges against its operations in India.
In a heartbreaking indictment, Congress has asserted that WhatsApp, which Zuckerberg’s team in India has voluntarily allowed, to be appropriated for hate speech and the consequent tearing of India’s fabric of social harmony.
The general secretary of Congress in charge of the KC Venugopal organization also asked him to explain a global media report that claimed that even WhatsApp, used by 400 million Indians, is compromised and indirectly controlled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The congress leader said that the party is “obliged to rewrite in such a short time for more information and revelations made public” through a new article in a media publication, which frames “three points that are alarming and violate both the spirit and law of foreign company operations in India ”.
The congressional leader had written to Zuckerberg on August 18, asking him to investigate allegations that the social media company’s India team treated the ruling BJP favorably.
Venugopal, citing the news article in his letter, claimed that the BJP was allowed to exercise control of WhatsApp’s operations in India in exchange for a possible license for its payment operations, which is critical to the future of the WhatsApp app. courier in India.
Congress has also stated that “more than one person on your company’s leadership team in India is biased and in favor of governing BJP in their professional endeavors.” The problem, Venugopal said, is bigger, deeper and more pervasive than was initially assumed.
The WSJ report cited interviews with unidentified people from Facebook and claimed that the company’s senior policy executive in India, Ankhi Das, intervened in internal content review processes to stop BJP’s Telangana lawmaker’s ban, Raja. Singh, whose posts were directed at the Muslim community. He said Das told staff members that punishing violations by BJP politicians would hurt the company’s business prospects in India.
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