Facebook feels the heat in its biggest market

Facebook feels the heat in its biggest market

Are social media platforms becoming not merely inadvertent enablers, but willing conduits of disinformation and hate speech?This question, which has raised its head in many parts of the world in the past month, has taken on a special intensity in India “” itself becoming one of the most discussed topics on social media.The debate was set off by a report published on Aug. 14 in The Wall Street Journal titled "Facebook's hate speech rules collide with Indian politics.“As detailed in the report (widely republished by the Indian press), Ankhi Das, Facebook's public policy director in India, personally intervened during last year's general election to prevent the removal of anti-Muslim posts on the platform by a prominent politician of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Das reportedly told Facebook employees in