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Facebook Videos Calling Bangladeshi Tourists ‘Infiltrators’, ‘Rohingya’ Shared by BJP Leaders
By Archit Mehta and Arbab Ali / The Wire
A man conducting a vox-pop (short interview with members of the public) at Shaheen Bagh with...
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How Legal Loopholes and Facebook’s Policies Helped India’s BJP in Elections
https://youtu.be/PEHC08e8Q6I
Senior journalist Paranjoy Guha-Thakurta talks to Kumar Sambhav of Reporters' Collective, the author of a four-part series of articles on Facebook and India's politics....
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Inside Facebook and BJP’s world of ghost advertisers
By Kumar Sambhav and Nayantara Ranganathan & Shreegireesh Jalihal / Aljazeera
New Delhi, India – Facebook allowed a large number of ghost and surrogate advertisers to secretly fund the...
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Facebook charged BJP less for India election ads than others
By Kumar Sambhav & Nayantara Ranganathan / Aljazeera
New Delhi, India–Facebook’s algorithm offers cheaper advertisement deals to India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over other political...
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23 Facebook Ghost Advertisers Pumped Rs 5 Crore into ‘Promoting’ BJP
In a blatant violation of its own rule of not favouring any political party or promoting its views, Facebook allowed several ghost and surrogate...
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How a Reliance-funded firm boosts BJP’s campaigns on Facebook
By Kumar Sambhav and Nayantara Ranganathan / Aljazeera
New Delhi, India – In the 2019 parliamentary elections, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fielded a Hindu ascetic...
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As religious riots grow in India, critics accuse Facebook of fanning the flames
By Raksha Kumar
Facebook removed from its platform a US sitting president whose words inspired people to violence in January 2021. But it hasn't done...
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Facebook stalling report on human rights impact in India, allege whistleblowers
By Kari Paul
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen and other prominent whistleblowers have renewed calls for Facebook to release a long-awaited report on its impact in India,...
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Facebook fails to terminate hate speech propagator Suresh Rajput, YouTube suspends his channel
BY POOJA CHAUDHURI
On November 9, Yati Narsinghanad disciple Suresh Rajput uploaded a video on Facebook about AIMIM chief Asaddudin Owaisi, where he referred to Muslims...