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In Facebook posts & public appearances, an Indian politician has said Rohingya Muslim immigrants should be shot, called Muslims traitors & threatened to raze mosques. He’s still on FB — despite push by FB staff to ban him. Story w/ @JeffHorwitz: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-hate-speech-india-politics-muslim-hindu-modi-zuckerberg-11597423346
Standing in FB staffers’ way: the company’s top public-policy exec in India.
The current and former Facebook employees said her intervention on behalf of the politician, Raja Singh, is part of a broader pattern of favoritism by Facebook toward India PM Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindu hard-liners.
Facebook deleted some of Mr. Singh’s postings after the Journal asked about them. It said Mr. Singh no longer is permitted to have an official, verified account, designated with a blue check mark badge.
While Twitter has suspended Mr. Hegde’s account as a result of such posts, Facebook took no action until the @WSJ sought comment from the company about his “Corona Jihad” posts. Facebook removed some of them on Thursday.
