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Why in News

• Company executives of Facebook opposed move to ban controversial politicians in countries where Facebook has large presence.
• Some employees of Facebook have alleged that company is following policy of favouritism towards ruling party.

Hate Speech

• In the year 2017, Bharatiya Janata Party Telangana MLA Raja Singhused his facebook account to give hate speech against Muslim community.
• That post went viral within few hours.
• An FIR was registered against him and Ram Sena’s Pramod Muthalik for instigating hatred towards other communities.
• December 2017

Facebook’s Enquiry

• By March of this year, after almost three years ,facebook concluded Mr. Singh had violated the company’s hate-speech rules.
• Employeesof facebook hate speech monitoring department argued that his rhetoric could lead to communal violence.
• They said his account should be permanently banned from the company’s platforms.

Company’s Response

• The company’s top public-policy executive in the country, Ankhi Das, opposedapplying the hate-speech rules to Mr. Singh and at least three other leaders.
• Das told staff members that punishing violations by politicians from ruling party would damage the company’s business prospects in the country.

Corona Jihad Incident

• In April this year, Anant Kumar Hegde, BJP politician posted content on facebook accusing Muslims of intentionally spreading the coronavirusand waging Corona Jihad against the nation.
• It violated Facebook’s hate speech rules, which bars direct attacks on people based on their religion.
• While Twitterhas suspendedMr. Hegde’s account, Facebook took no action except removing that post.
• April 2020

February Delhi Riots

• In February, the former BJP lawmaker Kapil Mishra uploaded a videotaped message on facebook.
• Speech warned police that if they didn’t clear protesters demonstrating against a citizenship bill, his supporters would do so by force.
• Within hours of the videotaped message rioting broke out that left dozens of people dead.

• Mishra became Popular on Facebook
• Zuckerberg cited Mr. Mishra’s post as an example of the sort of behavior that the platform wouldn’t tolerate from a politician.
• The company took down the video post.
• But within two months of the video of the speech being posted, traffic on Mishra’s Facebook page grew from a couple hundred to more than 2.5 million.

Favouritism

• The current and previous interventions by Ms. Das on behalf of ruling party legislators are part of a broader pattern of favoritism by Facebook toward ruling government.
• Facebook sometimes adapts its policies to meet political realities in key markets.
• India is a vital market for Facebook. India has more Facebook and WhatsApp users than any other country.

Future Plans

• Facebook has chosen India as the market to introduce payments and encryption initiatives.
• In April, Facebook said it would spend $5.7 billion on a new partnership with an Indian telecom operator to expand operations in the country.

Appeasing Governments Worldwide

• How Facebook polices content has emerged as a major issue in the U.S., where the company faces regular accusations of political bias
• Some high-profile advertisers recently boycotted the platform over its handling of hateful content

Appeasing Governments Worldwide

• In Germany, Facebook agreed to abide by stricter hate-speech rules than in the U.S. or elsewhere.
• In Singapore, it has agreed to append a “correction notice” to news stories deemed false by the government.

Appeasing Governments Worldwide

• In Vietnam, Facebook’s local servers were taken offline to place significant pressure on it to increase compliance with legal takedown orders.
• Facebook agreed to restrict access to dissident political content deemed illegal in exchange for the government ending its practice of disrupting Facebook’s local servers.

Facebook’s Response

• Facebook says it doesn’t tolerate efforts to use its platforms to instigate violence anywhere in the world.
• Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to reassure employees and advertisers in the U.S. that the company won’t let its platform be used to incite violence or interfere with the democratic process.
• He said People should be able to see what politicians say but there are lines, and we will enforce them.

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