For the past few weeks, @AltNews has been working on stories related to hate speech and reaching out to social media platforms to deplatform dangerous individuals. Facebook has been the most unresponsive when it comes to taking action.
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We wrote to @Meta @bipchakr @Sunitapatnaik3 on December 6, 2021 about Bajrang Dal member Harish Ramkali who posts videos of demolishing Mazars. He also regularly posts videos where he accuses Muslims and Christians of running conversion rackets.
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Our email was acknowledged. But we failed to get a response despite numerous follow-up emails. @metaindia did not suspend Harish Ramkali's account.
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In the email about Ramkali, we also alerted Facebook about HJM leader Jeet Vashisth. He posts similar hateful content.
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This is our email to which Facebook neither replied nor took any action against Jeet Vashisth.
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We also wrote to Facebook about BJP supporter Sandeep Acharya who makes Hindutva songs that carry anti-Muslim hate speech in the lyrics.
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Below is our email to Facebook.
Sandeep Acharaya's account was also not removed.
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Sandeep also used to run a YouTube channel called 'Rudra Music' where he posted the same content. We wrote to @YouTubeIndia about the channel. Unlike Facebook, YouTube took down his channel.
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We sent emails to FB and YouTube about Suresh Rajput who goes by "Hindu sher boy". He is a close aide of Yati Narsinghanad and posts hate speech and instigates violence against Muslims. FB removed some of his content, YouTube terminated his channel.
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In fact, Rajput had made a new channel after his earlier YouTube channel was terminated. We informed YouTube again and his new channel was also banned.
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YouTube has been more responsive and actively takes down hate speech once flagged. We recently alerted YouTube about the channel 'Swami Amritanad' that had uploaded Live videos of #HaridwarHateAssembly.
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YouTube first added strikes on two videos uploaded by the channel and suspended posting its privileges for one week. The channel made a new channel during this time which led to the suspension of both.
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.@AltNews is actively working to suspend dangerous accounts. I have made this thread to document social media companies' response to hate speech. It is also to document their (in this case, Facebook's) lack of response to hate speech. I will keep updating this thread.
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