Facebook faces grilling by MPs in India over anti-Muslim hate speech
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Shaikh Azizur Rahman from Technology | The Guardian on (#57KRD)
Social media site denies any bias towards ruling Hindu nationalist BJP party
Facebook's alleged political bias and its role in spreading anti-Muslim hate speech in India is to come under scrutiny when senior executives are summoned before a parliamentary committee.
The committee hearing on Wednesday follows allegations in the Wall Street Journal that the company's top policy official in India, Ankhi Das, had prevented the removal of hate speech and anti-Muslim posts by politicians from the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) in order to maintain a good relationship with the government, a claim the company denied.
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