Facebook public policy director for India and south and central Asia Ankhi Das is leaving the company to go into public service.
Newley Purnell and Jeff Horwitz of The Wall Street Journal reported in August that Indian politician T. Raja Singh, a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party, was allowed to remain on Facebook’s platform despite violating its hate speech policies and being classified as dangerous due to his off-platform activities.
Purnell and Horwitz were told by current and former Facebook employees that Das opposed applying Facebook’s hate speech rules to Singh and at least three other Hindu nationalist individuals and groups, telling staff members doing so would damage Facebook’s business prospects in India, its largest market in terms of users.
Facebook vice president and managing director for India Ajit Mohan refuted the Journal report at TechCrunch’s Disrupt 2020 virtual conference last month, saying that no one executive at Facebook...
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