The Committee on Peace and Harmony in the Indian capital, New Delhi, has summoned the founder of Facebook in India at a time when Facebook has recently come under fire for not removing hateful content in India. ۔
Criticism of Facebook escalated last month when the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook had removed the hate speech of Raja Singh, a member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), for business purposes. Is reluctant to.
The report said that employees monitoring Facebook's content had concluded that by March 2020, Raja Singh had not only violated the principles of hate speech online and offline on websites against Muslims and Rohingya immigrants. Instead, he fell into the dangerous category of choosing his own words to incite global violence against Muslims, but he was not banned by the Facebook administration.
At the same time, three other extremist nationalist Hindu leaders on Facebook were criticized for not removing hate speech.
Following severe criticism, on September 4, Facebook banned Raja Singh, a Telangana state assembly member, for spreading hateful and anti-Muslim material. However, Facebook was still heavily criticized.
Due to strong criticism on Facebook, the New Delhi Assembly's sub-committee on peace and harmony has now summoned Ajit Mohan, the head of Facebook in India.
The special subcommittee issued a summons to Facebook's country chief to appear before September 15, the AFP news agency reported.
The committee issued a summons to the head of Facebook's India on September 12, and some members of the committee also demanded that the spread of the riots on Facebook during the ethnic riots in New Delhi earlier this year. Content should be investigated.
The committee summoned the head of Facebook in India to take a stand after a US human rights group recently called for an investigation into India's failure to crack down on hate speech on Facebook. ۔
Although Facebook has now banned Raja Singh from spreading hate speech, Facebook is still being asked to remove Ankhi Das, the 'policy head' in India, who allegedly He refrained from taking action against extremist politicians of the ruling party who spread hate speech.
The Bharatiya Janata Party is also believed to have a hand in the appointment of Ankhi Das to a high post on Facebook and that is why he is reluctant to take action against the extremist politicians of the ruling party.
India is the largest user of many social networking sites and apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp, which is why many companies are reluctant to implement strict policies there.
