Facebook Is Stifling Independent Report on Its Impact in India, Human Rights Groups Say
Human rights groups say Facebook is stifling an independent report it commissioned to investigate hate speech on its services in India, the company’s largest market by customers and where scrutiny of its operations is increasing.
Representatives for the organizations say they have provided extensive input to a U.S. law firm that Facebook commissioned in mid-2020 to undertake the report. The groups say they supplied hundreds of examples of inflammatory content and suggested ways Facebook could better police its services in India.
Facebook executives from the company’s human rights team, which is overseeing the law firm’s effort, have since narrowed the draft report’s scope and are delaying a process that has already taken more than a year, the groups say. “They are trying to kill it,” said Ratik Asokan of India Civil Watch International, one of the organizations that provided the law firm with input….
This article originally appeared in Wall Street Journal.
