IT Minister Ravi Shankar accuses Facebook India of being bias

After Congress's allegations on Facebook for being bias towards BJP and Facebook turning down the allegations, Ravi Shankar Prasad has now written to Facebook. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Information Technology IT has written to Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg saying that there was a “concerted effort” by Facebook India officials to delete pages of right-of-centre ideology. In the letter he mentioned, “Right from India MD to other senior officials, they all belong to a particular political belief and Facebook is the latest tool in their arsenal to stoke internal divisions and social disturbances.” He added that there have been “multiple instances” where Facebook was used by “anarchic and radical” elements, but no meaningful action had been taken against them so far. Also Read | Punjab withdraws order to hike rates of health services “I would like to point out that there have also been multiple instances recently where Facebook has been used by anarchic and radical elements, whose sole aim is to destroy social order to recruit people and assemble them for violence. However, we are yet to see any meaningful action against such elements,” he said. -PTC News