Facebook employees internally question policy after India content controversy: Memos

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Facebook and its top lobbying executive in India, Ankhi Das, are facing questions internally from employees over how political content is ...

NEW DELHI: Facebook and its top lobbying executive in India, Ankhi Das, are facing questions internally from employees over how political content is regulated in its biggest market, according to sources with direct knowledge and internal posts seen by Reuters.

The WSJ article said Das had told staff that applying hate-speech rules to politicians close to Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party "would damage the company's business prospects in the country." One of the sources said Facebook's India leadership will have to answer tough questions on what really happened,"There will be scrutiny on what really went down."

The WSJ"article does not reflect the person I know or the extraordinarily complex issues we face everyday that benefits from Ankhi and the Public Policy team's expertise," Mohan wrote.

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