The committee has asked Ajit Mohan, the managing director of Facebook India, to appear before it on September 15 to determine the “veracity of allegations” made by the group. It follows US civil rights groups claiming last week that the firm had failed to address hateful content in India and demanded that its India policy chief, Ankhi Das, be removed. Facebook has denied any political bias but admitted it has to do better to curb hate speech. After the furore over the WSJ’s August report, Facebook blocked T. Raja Singh, a BJP lawmaker who had said Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar should be shot. Singh told AFP he would fight the ban and that Facebook’s action was an attack on BJP.

Source: Punch September 12, 2020 12:22 UTC