indiaUpdated: Aug 18, 2020 14:32 ISTThe Congress party on Tuesday asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to probe allegations that the social media company’s India team meted out favourable treatment towards the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He also asked Zuckerberg to set up a high-level inquiry into the Facebook India leadership team and their operations. “This is a damning and serious allegation of Facebook India’s interference in India’s electoral democracy,” Venugopal has said in the letter. The Congress party has asked the company to make public all instances of hate speech posts since 2014 that were allowed on the platform. Congress and the CPI (M) have demanded a probe by a joint parliamentary committee into the allegations.

Source: Hindustan Times August 18, 2020 07:42 UTC