FB India is currently censoring posts calling for the resignation of the Prime Minister
https://twitter.com/srinivasaiims/status/1387472195316711426
I just used a VPN to check and this is still active. Outside of India, most posts using this hashtag are about the censorship
What's going on @Liz_Shepherd @andymstone?
Some context wsj.com/articles/faceb…
Facebook already excludes certain hashtags associated with misinformation (eg #adrenochrome) from search results.
There's a possibility this hashtag was excluded in error, but given the company's history in India it doesn't look great.
There's a possibility this hashtag was excluded in error, but given the company's history in India it doesn't look great.
Facebook has just restored the hashtag, per @andymstone
https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1387491715171422215
Update from Facebook on this: "We temporarily blocked this hashtag by mistake, not because the Indian government asked us to, and have since restored it.”
Facebook won't offer any further explanation other than that some of the content associated with the #ResignModi hashtag led to it mistakenly being blocked. But how? Was it an automated process? Or a manual one? If the latter, who was responsible?
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