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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 ...
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.
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 ...
[7] [8] Das himself refuted the claim in a Facebook post. [9] Several television news outlets also ran headlines falsely claiming that the violence constituted an "act of genocide" and a " pogrom ", while an alleged arson attack on a Hindu temple was later found to have occurred at an adjacent Awami League office.
[99] [100] Media houses also have their own fact-checking departments now such as the India Today Group, Times Internet has TOI Factcheck and The Quint has WebQoof. [101] [102] India Today Group, Vishvas.news, Factly, Newsmobile, and Fact Crescendo (all International Fact-Checking Network certified) are Facebook partners in fact-checking. [99]
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.
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.