On Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s “New Steps to Protect America’s Elections.” They include blocking new political ads in the week leading up to Election Day and attaching tags to posts that contain misinformation, specifically related to the coronavirus, and posts by politicians declaring victory before all …
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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 …
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Facebook has received similar letters recently from Congress and the BJP. New Delhi: Facebook has received the third letter in two weeks accusing it of political bias. In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the Trinamool Congress said that the accounts and posts were blocked by the social media giant …
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Claiming that hundreds of Facebook and WhatsApp accounts of Trinamool party supporters were banned online, the party has written to the social media giant urging “immediate action.” Noting that the account ban comes months before elections in the state, Trinamool said it points to a link between “Facebook and the …
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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 …
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A file photo of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (AFP) Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said there are multiple cases where Facebook has been used by radical elements “whose sole aim is to destroy social order.” News18.com Last update: September 1, 2020 11:30 PM IST FOLLOW US: The Union’s Information Technology …
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Among other allegations, the minister in his letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (above) also alleged that Facebook employees had abused the prime minister and high-level cabinet ministers while working at Facebook India and holding positions important. (Reuters / File Image) The ongoing controversy over Facebook’s alleged political bias took …
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NEW DELHI: In the midst of a raging controversy over political bias and interference in Facebook At the urging of its top Indian officials, the government on Tuesday wrote a strong letter to the founder of the social media giant. Mark Zuckerberg, accusing the company’s employees of “officially abusing” Prime …
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In response to a letter from Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to Mark Zuckerberg, Congress on Tuesday questioned the government for failing to seek a Joint Parliamentary Committee investigation into an alleged collusion between Facebook India and BJP. Congress was responding to Prasad, who accused employees of the social media …
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Employees abused PM, registered ministers while still working at Facebook India, wrote Prasad Highlight Ravi Shankar Prasad wrote a letter to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Facebook has been used by anarchic and radical elements, he says However, to see some meaningful action against such elements, add New Delhi: Amid much controversy …
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