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A 2019 book titled The Real Face of Facebook in India, co-authored by the journalists Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Cyril Sam, alleged that Facebook helped enable and benefited from the rise of Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India. [385] Ankhi Das, Facebook's policy director for India and South and Central Asia ...
Facebook confirms that the acquisition is a talent acquisition. [388] [389] 2014: January 16: Product: Facebook launches Trending Topics for its web version in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and Australia. [390] [391] This is based on feedback to a pilot version tested both on the web and mobile starting August 2013. [392 ...
In 2010, Facebook opened its fourth office, in Hyderabad, India, [210] which houses online advertising and developer support teams and provides support to users and advertisers. [211] In India, Meta is registered as Facebook India Online Services Pvt Ltd. [ 212 ] It also has support centers in Chittagong ; Dublin ; [ clarification needed ...
India imposed a three-day ban on Facebook and other social media sites during the riots in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh after the conviction of Baba Ram Rahim Singh in 2017. [ citation needed ] Censorship on Facebook increased by 19% in 6 months in 2014; India led the list of content removal in 2014.
The TRAI ruling against differential pricing marked the end of Free Basics in India. [386] Earlier, Facebook had spent US$44 million in advertising and it implored all of its Indian users to send an email to the Telecom Regulatory Authority to support its program. [387]
Ajit Mohan is an Indian technology executive who is currently working as the president of Asia-Pacific region at Snap Inc. [2] Previously, he served as vice president and managing director of Meta India (formerly Facebook India) and was also the chief executive officer of Star India's streaming media platform Hotstar.
Facebook Live was used by the perpetrators of an incident in which four black young adults kidnapped and tortured a mentally disabled white male. [121] All four were charged and convicted of hate crimes. [122] Facebook Live was also used by Brenton Tarrant, perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings to broadcast the attack on Al Noor Mosque.
In November 2022, amid mass layoffs of over 11,000 employees, she took up the vacant position of Vice President of Meta India, which had been previously left vacant by Ajit Mohan. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Other senior staff leaving the company included the former WhatsApp Head for India, Abhijit Bose .