Referring to the latest report published by WSJ, Chowdhury said Facebook’s India policy head, Ankhi Das, referring to Modi’s victory in 2014 elections had written an internal email to her employees saying, “We lit a fire to his social media campaign and the rest is of course history”.
“Evidently, she was elated at his victory and the big role her company, Facebook played,” said Chowdhury.
“The article states how Ms Das boasted that she has successfully lobbied with the BJP to include Facebook’s priorities in their election manifesto and ‘now they just need to go and win the elections’. She even circulated internal predictions of a BJP victory,” said Chowdhury
“Their complicity in propagating hate speech and fake news to favour the BJP in elections is confirmed. What makes it worse is that Facebook’s global leadership team was well aware of the biases and partisanship of their India leadership team but were willing participants,” added Chowdhury.
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