The article didn't mention it, but it's relevant that after the news of this broke in India, the lady in question filed multiple police complaints alleging online harassment. These complaints were targeted at anonymous Twitter accounts that had tweeted abuse at her, but also at a journalist who maintains he has never interacted with her in any capacity online or offline and simply posted a set of questions he wished to pose to his Facebook. The Committee to Protect Journalists has come out in support of that person, who has filed a counter-complaint alleging criminal intimidation.
Corruption of the political values in Indian politics, media and public in general is surprising. Religious fanatism is on the rise, earlier taboos like horse-trading of elected members is completely normal and is popularised as a master-stroke by the media.
Facebook executive who shared anti-Muslim post apologises: Report
Ankhi Das apologised to company staff for post that dubbed Muslims in India a 'degenerate community', BuzzFeed reports.<p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/facebook-executive-shared-anti-muslim-post-apologises-report-200827063537453.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/facebook-executive-sh...</a><p>Facebook & Twitter is a disease.
What else can we expect when 50% Ministers in Modi Cabinet are Brahmin while they're just 3% in India <a href="https://twitter.com/0x101/status/1298928597730594816" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/0x101/status/1298928597730594816</a>
Remember this the next time HN commentators decide that Facebook should be the arbiter of truth and censor those who make "factually incorrect" statements.<p>Of course Facebook is politically biased.
I have criticized Trump in internal messages at work, that doesn’t mean my employer is structurally biased against the Trump administration. Not sure this would even be the case if I was CEO. The CEO of any company votes one way or the other but that doesn’t mean the company is biased.<p>Overall I think FB is fucked here, they have created a problem they can’t solve. They have created a large pool of basically everyone’s thoughts at all times, and now people want very specific things removed from that pool, and nobody can agree what those things are.