Facebook controversy: Surjewala attacks BJP-RSS through cartoons, writes- This is New India

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Aug 21 2020 04:45 PM
Vinod Rathore

New Delhi: Controversy about Facebook and Indian politics is deepening. The Congress has once again attacked the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak (RSS) through a cartoon. Congress national spokesperson Randeep Surjewala, while posting the cartoon, wrote that this is New India. In a cartoon shared by Congress leader Randeep Surjewala, a man wearing a white shirt and khaki half pants swears by handing over the Facebook logo, 'I swear I will follow all the rules established by Zuckerberg and ...'

Let us tell you that this entire episode has emerged from the article 'Facebook Hate-Speech Rules Colloid with Indian Politics' published in an American newspaper, Wall Street General. The report claimed that Facebook appears lax in taking action in the case of inflammatory language of ruling BJP leaders in India. The report referred to a disputed post by BJP MLA T Raja Singh. Facebook employees say that they had protested on T. Raja Singh's post and termed it against the rules of the company, but no action was taken by the company's executives at the top level in India.

On this, former National President of Congress Rahul Gandhi alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) control Facebook and WhatsApp. They spread hatred through it.