T Raja Singh had claimed in a video on Twitter that he has no official Facebook page.
New Delhi:
Facebook has banned T Raja Singh, a BJP leader at the center of allegations that the social media giant failed to apply the rules of hate speech to members of the ruling BJP. The politician was banned for violating Facebook’s policy on content promoting hate and violence, a spokesperson said.
“We have banned Raja Singh from Facebook for violating our policy that prohibits those who promote or participate in acts of violence and hate from having a presence on our platform,” a Facebook spokesperson said in an emailed statement, adding that the The process for evaluating potential offenders “is extensive and is what led us to Facebook’s decision to delete your account.”
Facebook’s action against the Telangana BJP MLA comes as it faces mounting political pressure in India for its handling of extremist content.
On Wednesday, Facebook officials appeared before a parliamentary panel led by Congressman Shashi Tharoor and faced questions about alleged political bias on both sides of the division.
T Raja Singh had claimed in a video on Twitter last month that he has no official Facebook page. “I have learned that many Facebook pages use my name. Let me clarify that I do not have an official page, I am not responsible for any of their publications,” he had said.
Singh had also repudiated the posts uploaded by the community and claimed that his official Facebook account was “hacked and blocked in 2018.”
In the video he tweeted on August 16, Singh said he was being “projected in such a way that I am the most dangerous in the whole world (like) when he (Raja Singh) says something on social media, then something or another happens. “. He claimed that he had an official YouTube account and an official Twitter account.
The Wall Street Journal, in the first of its reports on Facebook, had cited anonymous insider information that claimed that Facebook India executive Ankhi Das intervened in an internal communication to stop a permanent ban on Raja Singh after he allegedly posted content. divisive, saying it would hurt “business prospects” in India.
Singh denied posting inflammatory messages, challenging anyone to show that they can be blamed for social unrest.
At the parliamentary panel meeting of more than two hours yesterday, Facebook officials were asked to list the cases in which they acted against hate speech. Mr Singh’s alleged charges were also cited by members of the opposition.
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