Facebook denounces hate, bigotry, its India chief says amid content row

FILE PHOTO: India's flag is seen through a 3D printed Facebook logo in this illustration picture, April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Facebook is a non-partisan platform which denounces hate and bigotry, the company's India head said on Friday, amid a controversy over how the U.S. social media giant regulates political content in its biggest market by number of users.

Facebook and its top lobbying executive in India, Ankhi Das, have faced criticism after a news report said she opposed applying hate-speech rules to some Hindu nationalist individuals and groups, and to a politician from India's ruling party who had called Muslims traitors in Facebook posts.