After the Indian Parliament, Delhi State Legislative Assembly summons Facebook Representatives over hate-speech complaints.
Delhi State Legislative Assembly’s Committee on Peace and Harmony has now summoned Facebook’s Executive Vice-President and Managing Director Ajit Mohan.
The complaint against Facebook said, “intentional omission and deliberate inaction on the part of the social media platform to apply hate speech rules and policies which has allegedly led to serious repercussions and disruption of peace and harmony across the NCT of Delhi.”
The letter sent by the committee said that the Committee called Ajit Mohan as a witness for testifying on oath and for rendering his assistance by providing the relevant information and explanations to expedite the determination of the veracity of allegations levelled against Facebook in the complaints and depositions made before the committee.
Earlier Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had accused Facebook to have a bias towards the BJP and RSS.
A #DelhiAssembly panel has issued a notice to #Facebook India vice president and managing director Ajit Mohan asking him to appear before it on September 15https://t.co/KLPJgzDLt7
— Financial Express (@FinancialXpress) September 12, 2020