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A Delhi Assembly committee on peace and harmony will today initiate on proceedings in connection with complaints about Facebook's alleged "deliberate and intentional inaction to contain hateful content" in India. The development comes in the backdrop of a report published in the Wall Street Journal recently, citing interviews with unnamed Facebook insiders to claim that one of its senior India policy executives intervened in internal communication to stop a permanent ban on a BJP MLA from Telangana after he allegedly made communally charged posts.

Meanwhile, a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court led by Justice Arun Mishra will on Tuesday examine the “effect” of a statement filed by advocate Prashant Bhushan that an insincere apology for his tweets, which are an expression of his bona fide beliefs, would amount to “contempt of my conscience and of an institution that I hold in highest esteem”. 

On August 20, while reserving the suo motu contempt case for order on sentencing, a three-judge Bench led by Justice Mishra gave Bhushan an opportunity to tender an unconditional apology by August 24.

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