‘Meta-Worse for Democracy’: Rahul Gandhi Takes a Dig at Meta-Owned Fb

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi attacked social media massive Fb on Wednesday and alleged that it used to be “worse for democracy”.

Gandhi shared a compilation of stories experiences on Twitter, accusing the social media massive of serving to the BJP achieve out to citizens right through the elections.

“Meta-worse for democracy,” Gandhi mentioned on Twitter.

He additionally shared a file of Al Jazeera and The Journalists’ Collective which claimed that Fb had presented BJP inexpensive offers for election commercials as in comparison to different political events.

In Lok Sabha, Congress president Sonia Gandhi suggested the federal government on Wednesday to place an finish to the alleged “systematic interference” of Fb and different social media giants in India’s electoral politics.

“I encourage the federal government to place an finish to the systematic interference and affect of Fb and different social media giants within the electoral politics of the arena’s greatest democracy. That is past partisan politics,” she mentioned in her 0 hour point out.

“We want to offer protection to democracy and social cohesion without reference to who’s in energy,” Sonia Gandhi mentioned.