Political hate speech has become a persistent issue for Facebook in several countries. One Facebook India executive recently resigned under controversy involving an MP's posts, but the scope of the problem exposes conflicts between politics and policy beyond one company or country…
In a country like India where something newsworthy is always happening, I can understand why an article about one employee resigning from one company wouldn’t be headline news for long, but when the company is Facebook and the employee in question was its South Asian public policy head, then it’s worth remembering. Ankhi Das resigned late last month after testifying before an Indian parliamentary committee on issues including the platform’s decision earlier this year to not flag or delete inflammatory posts from Telangana MP T Raja Singh. The intersection of how politicians behave with how social media platforms function: worth knowing about, right?
