NEW DELHI: Facebook’s fact-checking team has not found any content that requires a ban the Bajrang Dalsaid the social media giant’s India boss Ajit Mohan parliamentary panel on Wednesday, sources said.
Mohan deposed before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, chaired by Congress Leader Shashi Tharoor. The panel had called him on the issue of citizen data security.
Mohan was accompanied by Shivnath Thukral, Facebook’s director of public policy.
Congressman Karti Chidambaram, along with Tharoor, questioned Mohan about a recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report suggesting that the social media giant is reluctant to ban Bajrang Dal from its platform due to financial reasons. and concerns about the safety of your staff. the sources said.
The WSJ report suggested that despite an internal assessment calling for the Bajrang Dal to be banned, Facebook has not cracked down on the Hindu nationalist group for these reasons.
In response to inquiries, Mohan suggested to the panel members that the Facebook fact team consultant has so far not found any such items in the content posted by Bajrang Dal that violates their social media policies.
Questioning him more, Bjp MP Nishikant Dubey asked if Bajrang Dal’s content did not violate its social media policies, then why didn’t Facebook deny WSJ’s report and call it false?
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