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| Congress alleges Facebook used by BJP as weapon to spread hate, seeks probe | | |  Agencies
New Delhi, Nov 12: The Congress on Friday alleged that Facebook was being used as a weapon by the BJP to spread hate and fake news in the country and demanded that a JPC probe be conducted on the issue and laws be enacted to restrict Facebook and WhatsApp. The party also alleged that India’s democracy is being manipulated by an American technology company and demanded that it holds an independent inquiry into the issue.
Congress leaders Rohan Gupta and Praveen Chakravarty said at a joint press conference that it is time Facebook stops being used as a weapon by the BJP to spread hate that threatens the country’s unity.
The Congress also wrote to Facebook chairman Mark Zuckerberg and asked him to conduct an independent inquiry to probe charges of hate speech and fake news being spread through Facebook and WhatsApp in India.
I strongly urge you to conduct an internal enquiry into the functioning of Facebook India and release the findings to the public. It is your responsibility as the head of this organisation to hold those responsible for betraying our people accountable for their actions,” Gupta, who heads the social media department of Congress, said in his letter to Zuckerberg.
“Facebook has become a weapon of the BJP in spreading hatred in the country...
There is an attempt to attack the unity of our country and everyone has to understand this and fight it together,” he told reporters |
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