Digvijaya asks Facebook CEO Zuckerberg why BJP's anti-Muslim posts were not stopped

BHOPAL: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Monday asked Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to clarify why hate speech against Muslims by BJP leaders is not being stopped by the social media giant. Two days ago, Digvijaya Singh posted a news article in the Wall Street Journal that said Facebook had not taken down instigating posts against Rohingya Muslims by BJP legislator from Telegana T Raja and two others of the saffron party.
Responding to the Wall Street Journal report, Facebook clarified, “We prohibit hate speech, and content that incites violence, and we enforce these policies globally without regard to anyone’s political position/party affiliation.” Facebook also claimed, “We’re making progress on enforcement, and conduct regular audits to ensure fairness and accuracy.”
Digvijaya Singh on Monday took to twitter and contended, “It is a very poor clarification Mr Mark Zuckerberg. You and your policy head Ankhi Das allowed a hate speech by Raja Singh BJP MLA to continue on Facebook.”
In a second tweet, Digvijaya Singh alleged, “Please explain why such a hate speech instigating people to kill Muslims was allowed to continue obviously under pressure from BJP. It is a fact that both Ankhi Das and her sister are known BJP activists and openly support Modi who is stifling the voice of the People and Media.”
The Wall Street Journal report said T Raja Singh had said that “Rohingya Muslim immigrants should be shot, called Muslims traitors and threatened to raze mosques.” The report said, that Facebook INC employees has cautioned that T.Raja Singh not only violated the company’s hate-speech rules but qualified as dangerous.
The news report also said that Facebook’s top public-policy executive in India, Ankhi Das who joined Facebook in 2011, “opposed applying the hate-speech rules to Mr Singh and at least three other Hindu nationalist individuals and groups” who are allegedly flagged internationally for promoting or participating in violence. The newspaper also claimed that sources in Facebook said that Ankhi Das “provided the BJP with favourable treatment on election-related issues.”