Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg raising concerns over senior Facebook officials “on record abusing Prime Minister and senior cabinet ministers”. He said it is problematic when these employees are doing this while still working in Facebook India and managing important positions.
He also spoke about “a concerted effort by Facebook in the run up the 2019 general elections to delete pages or substantially reduce their reach but also offer no recourse or right of appeal to affected people who are supportive of the right of centre ideology”, adding that dozens of mails written in this regard to the social media giant has gone unanswered.
He said there are “credible media reports” about the Facebook India’s managing director and other senior officials belonging to a particular belief and that people from this political disposition has been “overwhelmingly defeated in successive free and fair elections”.
He said he would like to point out multiple instances where the social media platform has been used by radical elements “who sole aim is to destroy social order” to recruit people and assemble them for violence.
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