The Supreme Court is considering a matter that could have a major impact on that section of the media that has been incessantly promoting hate speech, community propaganda and defamation of Muslims. Last month, Sudarshan News, a television channel, aired a trailer for a program, ‘Bindas Bol’, in which the …
Read More »Delhi Assembly Panel To Issue “Final Notice” To Facebook After Representative Skips Procedures | India News
NEW DELHI: A Delhi mounting panel decided Tuesday to issue a “final notice” for Facebook after no representative appeared before the committee that is hearing accusations against the social media giant. During the procedures, Peace and Harmony Committee President and AAP MLA Raghav Chadha He said the failure of any …
Read More »‘Politically sophisticated’ attempt to influence Delhi elections on Facebook before it was removed: former employee
A “politically sophisticated” attempt to influence the Delhi elections in February unfolded on Facebook before it was quietly withdrawn, a recently fired employee at the social media company said in a memo. Former Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang has also cited examples in the memo of how the company failed …
Read More »Facebook Bans BJP’s T Raja Singh, Labels Him a “Dangerous Individual” | India News
T Raja Singh (File photo) NEW DELHI: Facebook announced Thursday that it banned BJP politician T Raja Singh, whose alleged posts recently placed him at the center of a Wall Street Journal report and consequently in a political maelstrom, from its platform for violating its policies against Hate speech. “We …
Read More »Not on Facebook, how can I get banned ?, asks BJP MLA
T Raja Singh asked if Facebook was operating under pressure from Congress. (Proceedings) Hyderabad: Banned by Facebook on Thursday for hateful content and labeled a “dangerous individual,” controversial Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh claimed that it had been more than a year since he left the social network’s website …
Read More »Will write to Facebook: BJP MLA after social media platform banned his account
Hours after a Wall Street Journal report said Facebook had banned Telangana’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA account, T Raja, the lawmaker said the social media platform should ban the accounts of other party leaders. they give speeches swellings. “I received information that Facebook has removed all the pages and …
Read More »Facebook Bans BJP Lawmaker Amid Intense Controversy Over Hate Speech Bias
A new report published Thursday in the Wall Street Journal claimed that Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker T Raja has been banned from Facebook, following an uproar over his comments amounting to hate speech. A previous WSJ report had alleged that the social media giant had shown preferential treatment …
Read More »Showdown likely as Parliament’s IT panel convenes on WSJ report on Facebook
A showdown is at stake Wednesday at the meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology chaired by Shashi Tharoor of Congress, where Members of Parliament (MPs) will hear the allegations made by Rupert Murdoch-owned publication The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ) in recent reports against the social media …
Read More »‘FB workers abusing prime minister’: Ravi Shankar Prasad writes to Zuckerberg on ‘political’ bias | India News
NEW DELHI: End of line FacebookThe alleged political leanings increased on Tuesday after the Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad wrote to his CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the “political predisposition” of the social media giant’s India team. The letter came after the opposition Congress attacked the Center, citing a media report …
Read More »Not a social media company, but people from India who turned down Rahul and Congress: BJP in line for Facebook | India News
NEW DELHI: Strike in Congress for alleging a link between the BJP and Facebook, the ruling party’s IT cell head Amit Malviya said on Saturday that it is not a social media company but the people of India who have rejected Rahul gandhi and his party. The (organization) secretary-general of …
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