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 accounts in my name. There are many leaders of other parties who give inflammatory speeches. Facebook should also ban your accounts. I will write to Facebook to open my official account, ”said Raja Singh.
A Wall Street Journal report published on August 14 alleged that Facebook was being tolerant of hate speech from BJP members and sparked a controversy.
The 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 the ban on Raja Singh, whose posts were targeted at the Muslim community.
Punishing violations by BJP politicians would hurt the company’s business prospects, Das is reported to have told staff members.
“We have banned Raja Singh from Facebook for violating our policy that prohibits those who promote or engage in acts of violence and hatred from having a presence on our platform. The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and is what led us to our decision to delete your account, ”said a Facebook spokesperson.
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