GUWAHATI: "Facebook enforces policies regardless of politics or party," social media giant Facebook said in a statement which was issued after a controversy erupted when the Wall Street Journal on 14th August reported that Facebook has ignored its hate speech policy and allowed anti-Muslim posts on its platform.
T. Raja Singh, member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly's speech, calling for violence against Muslims and threatening to demolish mosques had been circulating on Facebook and Instagram. Reportedly, despite Facebook officials claiming the speech not only violated the company's 'hate-speech' policy but also had the tendency of igniting violence, the post has still been circulating.
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The Wall Street Journal reported, "The company's top public-policy executive in the country, Ankhi Das, opposed applying the hate-speech rules to [T Raja] Singh and at least three other Hindu nationalist individuals and groups flagged internally for promoting or participating in violence."
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After the same was reported by national as well as other international media, Facebook reacted by stating that the company's policy on hate speech will be implemented "without regard to anyone's political position or party affiliation".
