By Shawn Lim

Facebook is under scrutiny in India from its employees over how political content is regulated in the country.

The social network’s top lobbying executive in India, Ankhi Das, reportedly opposed applying the company’s hate-speech rules to a politician from India’s prime minister Narendra Modi’s party who had in posts labelled Muslims as traitors, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Why is this important?

• Das told staff that applying hate-speech rules to politicians close to Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) “would damage the company’s business prospects in the country.”

• Facebook India head Ajit Mohan defended Das and the company’s policies in Read full story ›

  Source: The Drum