India: Congress asks Zuckerberg to probe India charges, Rahul says can’t allow democracy manipulation
File image of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi | Photo: ANI
In a letter to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, the Congress Tuesday demanded an “impartial investigation” into the company’s India operations after a Wall Street Journal report indicated that the US social media giant is favouring the BJP.
The party also called for a new team to lead the Facebook India operations until the inquiry is complete.
In the letter, general secretary K.C. Venugopal said the Congress is deeply disappointed to note that Facebook may be “a willing participant in thwarting the very rights and values that our founding leaders sacrificed their lives for”.
Former party chief Rahul Gandhi tweeted the letter, saying, “We cannot allow any manipulation of our hard-earned democracy through bias, fake news and hate speech.
The letter came a day after party leader Shashi Tharoor, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, tweeted that the panel would “wish to hear from Facebook about these reports & what they propose to do about hate-speech in India”.
Source: The Print
