Topic: facebook

Facebook has banned renowned poet and critic K. Satchidanandan for 24 hours after the poet uploaded a video on the BJP's defeat in Kerala assembly elections and an advertisement for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Last week IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar released the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 at a press conference in New Delhi. Although the government had raised the issue in 2018, work on issuing the new rules for social media and OTT platforms gained acceleration after the spat between IT ministry and Twitter over removal of certain accounts affiliated with farm protests to which Twitter disagreed.

A Rohingya rights group demanded to Facebook to stop the Myanmar's military from using its platform to recruit members on Saturday.

An independent UN human rights expert called on Wednesday for Facebook’s Oversight Board to give greater consideration to the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities before making decisions over controversial content, particularly involving hate speech.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding a ban on posts on the social media platform spreading "Islamophobia and hatred against Islam" which is reflective of prejudice and bias that will encourage further radicalisation, the government said on Sunday.

Social media platforms are taking down online content they consider terrorist, violently extremist, or hateful in a way that prevents its potential use to investigate serious crimes, including war crimes, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Thursday.