According to sources, the decision to remove Singh from the platform was taken after an extensive process.
Under pressure for weeks over its handling of hate speech, Facebook on Thursday said it has banned BJP politician T Raja Singh from its platform and Instagram for violating its policy on content promoting violence and hate.
"We have banned Raja
Singh from Facebook for violating our policy prohibiting those that promote or
engage in violence and hate from having a presence on our platform,” a Facebook
spokesperson said in an emailed statement. The process for evaluating potential
violators is extensive and it is what led to Facebook's decision to remove his
account, according to the statement.
Facebook — which counts
India among its largest markets with over 300 million users - has been in the
eye of a storm after a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report alleged that Facebook's
content policies favoured the ruling party in India. The report had alleged
that Facebook had ignored posts containing hate speech by BJP
MLA Raja Singh. Since then, the ruling BJP and Congress have been trading
barbs over social media giant's alleged bias. In the wake of the WSJ report, a
Parliamentary panel had summoned Facebook representatives to discuss the issue
of alleged misuse of the social media platform on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, IT Minister
Ravi Shankar Prasad had also written to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg accusing
the social media platform's employees of supporting people from a political
predisposition that lost successive elections, and "abusing" the
Prime Minister and senior cabinet ministers.
According to sources, the
decision to remove Singh from the platform was taken after an extensive process
that the company follows in determining which individuals meet the criteria for
policy violation and the work had been ongoing for some time to review Singh's
actions.
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