An Indian parliamentary panel on information technology will next month question Facebook executives on how the platform allowed ruling BJP leaders to get away with sharing hate speech. BREAKING: Facebook refused to apply hate-speech rules to BJP officials, despite evidence of their violent and Islamophobic rhetoric on the platform. The 30-member IT panel has 15 MPs from BJP, four from Congress including Tharoor and members from other political parties. “We cannot allow any manipulation of our hard-earned democracy through bias, fake news & hate speech. "We've made progress on tackling hate speech on our platform, but we need to do more," he said.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 23, 2020 09:00 UTC