Facebook Staff Accused of Blocking Right-Wing Views in India
- Technology minister made allegations in a letter to Zuckerberg
- Accusations escalate a controversy over Facebook’s policies
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India’s Minister of Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad accused some Facebook Inc. employees of blocking right-wing views in the nation, escalating a battle over content moderation in the social media company’s largest market by users.
Prasad made the allegations in a letter to Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday. The note comes two weeks after the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. firm failed to remove alleged hate speech from a lawmaker belonging to Prasad’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.