Facebook turned a blind eye to anti-Muslim hate speech and propaganda in India, says report

Despite identifying hate speech propaganda against Indian Muslims, Facebook often turned a blind eye to it and let it remain on its website, says a new report based on leaked internal Facebook documents.

There has been a massive leak of internal documents from Facebook and several whistleblowers have come forward to claim that the company is not doing enough to stop or curb hate speech and propaganda. But just how bad is the situation? As far as India is concerned, extremely bad, says a new report. The report notes that even in cases where Facebook identifies clear examples of hate speech and propaganda, mostly against Indian Muslims, it doesn't act.

A new report by the Wall Street Journal, which is based on documents leaked from Facebook, says Facebook researchers have repeatedly identified a sustained and widely prevalent anti-Muslim hate speech and propaganda on Facebook pages and groups in the last two years, and particularly after December 2019 when protests against CAA started.