A report by The Wall Street Journal on Saturday mentioned that Facebook overlooked its hate speech policies
Current Affairs : The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology said on Sunday that it would look for Facebook’s reaction on the claims that the web-based social networking mammoth disregarded loathe discourses to secure its India business.
“The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology would unquestionably wish to get notification from Facebook about these reports and what they propose to do about abhor discourse in India,” Shashi Tharoor, the board of trustees’ administrator and senior Congress party pioneer, tweeted on Sunday.
He proceeded to include that the subject was solidly inside the IT panel’s order and Facebook had been gathered in the past also. “The council will think about declaration under the theme — shielding residents’ privileges and avoidance of abuse of social/online news media stages,” Tharoor said.
A report by The Wall Street Journal on Saturday referenced that Facebook disregarded its abhor discourse arrangements in the instances of Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party MLA T Raja Singh and three other “Hindu patriot people and gatherings” so as to shield the web based life stage’s business possibilities. It additionally expressed that one of Facebook’s top open arrangement heads in India “contradicted applying detest discourse rules” to people connected with the BJP despite the fact that they were “hailed inside for advancing savagery”.
Aditi Mehta 