India’s IT minister’s letter came amid growing political controversy in India over how Facebook regulates political content in a major market where it has more than 300 million users. — Reuters
NEW DELHI: India's information technology minister accused Facebook on Sept 1 of censoring content from people supportive of right wing ideology in the latest salvo at the social media giant over content regulation in its biggest user market.
In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, reviewed by Reuters, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said he had been told that Facebook's India management team had made a concerted effort to censor such content ahead of India's 2019 election.
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