Facebook executive who shared anti-Muslim post apologises: Report
Facebook ignored its hate speech policy and allowed anti-Muslim posts on its platform to avoid ruining the company's relationship with India's governing party , said the report by The Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ said the right-wing politician had demanded mainly-Muslim Rohingya refugees be shot, called India's Muslims traitors and threatened to demolish mosques in his Facebook posts and public speeches.
With nearly 300 million users, India is Facebook's biggest market, while the social media's messaging service, WhatsApp, has nearly500 million usersin the South Asian nation of 1.4 billion people.
Critics have accused the social network of prioritising profit over ethics as it has allowed hate speech on its platforms.
Accusations of bias comes in the wake of criticism directed at Facebook for platforming white supremacists in the West and far-right groups in other parts of the world, including Myanmar, where Buddhist nationalists have demonised Muslim-majority Rohingya. Nearly one million Rohingya have been forced to flee after years of anti-Muslim hate propaganda online, including Facebook.
In the United States and around the world, Facebook employees are raising questions about whether adequate procedures and content regulation practices were being followed by the India team, sources familiar with discussions told the Reuters news agency.
An Indian parliamentary panel will also question Facebook executives about the company's hate speech regulation policies in India on September 2.
India's main opposition Congress party has called for a parliamentary panel to investigate what it has described as favourable treatment by Facebook's India team towards the country's governing right-wing party.
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