{"id":22374,"date":"2020-09-01T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T13:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/01\/facebook-faces-grilling-by-mps-in-india-over-anti-muslim-hate-speech"},"modified":"2020-09-01T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T13:25:07","slug":"facebook-faces-grilling-by-mps-in-india-over-anti-muslim-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22374","title":{"rendered":"Facebook faces grilling by MPs in India over anti-Muslim hate speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media site denies any bias towards ruling Hindu nationalist BJP party<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s alleged political bias and its role in spreading anti-Muslim hate speech in India is to come under scrutiny when senior executives are summoned before a parliamentary committee.<\/p>\n<p>The committee hearing on Wednesday follows allegations in the Wall Street Journal that the company\u2019s top policy official in India, Ankhi Das, had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-faces-hate-speech-grilling-by-indian-lawmakers-after-journal-article-11597747734\">prevented the removal of hate speech<\/a> and anti-Muslim posts by politicians from the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) in order to maintain a good relationship with the government, a claim the company denied.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/01\/facebook-faces-grilling-by-mps-in-india-over-anti-muslim-hate-speech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media site denies any bias towards ruling Hindu nationalist BJP partyFacebook\u2019s alleged political bias and its role in spreading anti-Muslim hate speech in India is to come under scrutiny when senior executives are summoned before a parliamentar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[687,62,447,238,371,824,61,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-india","category-islam","category-media","category-religion","category-social-networking","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22375,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374\/revisions\/22375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}