Facebook denies allegations of favouring BJP for Hate Speech rules

New Delhi: Social media is currently the best platform to tell your point. But some chaotic elements and politicians take advantage of it wrongly. And also post something they should do. In such a situation, there have been many such cases in which provocative and disputed posts were shared on Facebook, causing a lot of controversy. In this case, most Facebook blocks such posts. And also reports to such people.

Facebook Controversy:

Such a statement came from Facebook. Because an American newspaper said in a report that Facebook did not act on the BJP leader under the rules of hate speech. According to the newspaper report, Facebook feared that any action against the BJP leader might affect its operation in India.

Facebook has now presented its clarification on such allegations. Facebook said that we prohibit hate speech and content that provokes violence.

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We implement this policy globally. We do not see anyone's political position or with whichever party the leader is related to. From Facebook it was further said that we have to do more work on it. We regularly audit our process to ensure fairness and accuracy.

Here, let us tell you what the whole matter is. Actually, the whole controversy started with a report by the Wall Street General. It was said in the report that BJP leader T. Raja had said in his Facebook post that Rohingya Muslims should be shot. Muslims were called traitors and threatened to demolish the mosque.

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This was opposed by a Facebook employee and considered it against company rules. However, the company did not take any action on this. After which the Congress made it an issue. And the BJP became an attacker.

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