FB India is currently censoring posts calling for the resignation of the Prime Minister https://twitter.com/srinivasaiims/status/1387472195316711426

I just used a VPN to check and this is still active. Outside of India, most posts using this hashtag are about the censorship

Some context https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-executive-supported-indias-modi-disparaged-opposition-in-internal-messages-11598809348

Facebook already excludes certain hashtags associated with misinformation (eg #adrenochrome) from search results.

There's a possibility this hashtag was excluded in error, but given the company's history in India it doesn't look great.

Facebook has just restored the hashtag, per @andymstone https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1387491715171422215

Update from Facebook on this: "We temporarily blocked this hashtag by mistake, not because the Indian government asked us to, and have since restored it.”