TMC MP Derek O’Brien writes to Mark Zuckerberg, raises issue of alleged bias of Facebook towards BJP

Assets within the birthday celebration stated that O’Brien met Zuckerberg in October 2015 in Delhi. (Specific Photograph by means of Gajendra Yadav/record)

The Trinamool Congress has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg elevating the problem of alleged bias of the social media massive in opposition to the BJP, and claimed that there’s sufficient proof in public area to confirm this rate.

Birthday celebration MP Derek O’Brien, who has written the letter to Zuckerberg additionally makes a connection with an previous assembly between the 2, the place a few of these issues have been raised.

Assets within the birthday celebration stated that O’Brien met Zuckerberg in October 2015 in Delhi.

“We, the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), India’s second-largest opposition birthday celebration, have had severe issues about Fb’s position all the way through the 2014 and 2019 common elections in India,” O’Brien wrote within the letter accessed by means of PTI.

“With the elections within the Indian state of West Bengal simply months away, your corporate’s fresh blocking off of Fb pages and accounts in Bengal additionally issues to the hyperlink between Fb and the BJP. There may be sufficient subject matter now within the public area, together with inner memos of senior Fb control, to confirm the prejudice,” he wrote.

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