In a letter to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, West Bengal's ruling party, the Trinamool Congress, said the company's recent blocking of pages and accounts in the state pointed to the links it had with the BJP. The letter became public just hours before Facebook's India boss Ajit Mohan was due to appear before a parliamentary panel, to explain his company's content regulation policies. "There is enough material now in the public domain, including internal memos of senior Facebook management, to substantiate the bias," Trinamool Congress spokesman Derek O' Brien wrote in an August 31 letter to Zuckerberg. The story prompted strong criticism of Facebook and Das, with the Congress Party calling for an investigation. Even Facebook employees have questioned the company's content policies in India, Reuters has previously reported.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 02, 2020 09:33 UTC