FRIENDING THE POWERS THAT BE

Apolitical slugfest has erupted between the BJP government and Opposition parties over an article in the that alleged that the social media giant was favouring the ruling party. According to the story, some Facebook employees had flagged certain posts in March by T. Raja Singh, BJP MP from Telangana, as dangerous violations of the company’s hate-speech rules. But Ankhi Das, the firm’s public policy director for India, south and central Asia, opposed applying the “hate speech rules to Singh” and “three other Hindu nationalist individuals and groups…flagged internally for promoting or participating in violence”. Das, the article said, told employees