Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fight against hate speech

Re:Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fi... by praveen9920 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @10:42AM (#24316423)

Hate speech is very common in Indian social media.

Also, This is not just a problem with Facebook India, Even Twitter India's heads have very close ties to India's ruling party.

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Re:Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fi... by actuator on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:50PM (#24319330)

Are you sure about this? From what I gather the current ruling dispensation in India is opposite of left, and Jack Dorsey has stated in the past about Twitter having left leaning bias. [1] Might not translate to their India operations but I strongly doubt it wouldn't.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/19/twitter...

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Re:Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fi... by newen on Saturday August 29, 2020 @08:14PM (#24320337)

BJP, India’s right wing party, has super majority seats in parliament and looks to be the only relevant party in the foreseeable future. So I think if they want to deal with India, they’d have to deal with BJP regardless of their political leanings.

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