The BJP MLA, who was banned for hate speech violations Thursday, said he has not been on Facebook since April 2019, so there was no question of banning him.
T. Raja Singh was among the central figures named in an August WSJ report that claimed Facebook ignored hate speech by BJP leaders to protect its business interests in India.
The Congress accused Facebook of interfering in India's democratic process and social harmony and being soft on members of the ruling BJP while applying its hate-speech rules.
Facebook India head Ajit Mohan says platform has removed 22.5 million hate speech posts globally, but doesn't respond to suggestions of an India-specific standard for the same.
The standoff has turned one of Facebook’s most distant markets into a test case as watchdogs around the world turn their own power against digital behemoths.
In a letter, the Union IT minister says Facebook has been used by ‘radical elements’ whose sole aim is to ‘destroy social order, to recruit people and to assemble them for violence’.
The global tweak to its terms of service, which takes effect on 1 October, gives Facebook the room to do whatever it deems necessary to maintain its business objectives.
The move seeks to push back against a proposed law that wants Facebook & Google to compensate publishers for the value they provide to their platforms.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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