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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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...