[Levin]

BY BILLY PERRIGO
JULY 14, 2022 12:59 PM EDT


Facebook’s parent company Meta has been accused of “whitewashing” a long-awaited report on its human rights impact in India, which the company released in a highly summarized form on Thursday, drawing fire from civil society groups.

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Facebook is contributing to an erosion of civil liberties in India and to dangers faced by minorities.

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Ankhi Das, Facebook’s most senior executive in India, resigned in October 2020 after the Wall Street Journal reported she had intervened to prevent the platform removing accounts of members of the country’s Hindu nationalist ruling party, some of whom had called for violence against India’s Muslim minority. India is Facebook’s largest market by users.


https://time.com/6197154/facebook-india-human-rights/

[Manthink]

Indian has the most no. of FB users in the world....Now you understand why this "Democracy" is always in a mess.

Even the freedom loving Yanks cannot tahan the South Asian culture of extreme falseshood and perversive fake news that pollute India's social media supported by Silicon Valley's powerful internet coy...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...-business/