Thread: Last week, I wrote in @Article14live how Facebook has been shielding the BJP for over the year, and the deep, commercial ties between them.
On Monday, I deposed before the Delhi Assembly& #39;s committee investigating Facebook& #39;s role in fanning hate. ">https://youtu.be/KV2xVhh0-...
For over 3 years, I have tracked how FB and WhatsApp have normalised hate. This is crucial because hate is a slow-trickling tap and it builds up overtime, solidifying biases and prejudice. FB and WA have played a very damaging role in this.
This slow, everyday hate can then be easily activated in communally tense situations into actionable hate.

So, FB& #39;s failure to stop that everyday hate speech on its platforms lays the foundation for hate crimes and clashes.
Just after CAA was passed, I reported this for @thewire_in : a very concerted, organised campaign to target and villify Indian Muslims. Then, when the anti-CAA protests started, posts incited violence against protesters were rampant on WA. https://thewire.in/media/cab-bjp-whatsapp-groups-muslims">https://thewire.in/media/cab...
This is a clear conflict of interest here. The party that does the most severe violations of its standards is also FB& #39;s biggest patroniser. Then, FB employs those who are aligned towards the BJP.

Will FB be able to act fairly against hate speech by the BJP?
I have said that FB& #39;s role in ensuring that hateful content flourishes on its platforms must be investigated. There must be an impartial, non-partisan investigation into this, which arrives at actionable points.

Let there be no doubt: FB needs to do a lot more and CAN do a lot.
Lastly, one must ask. World over, governments have demanded more of Facebook and even thrown the rule book at it.

Why do we have a government which either keeps mum or attacks the opposition, when asked to act against FB?
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