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The company said on Thursday it had banned politician Raja Singh
from Facebook and Instagram under its "dangerous individuals and
organizations" policy.
When contacted for comment, Singh, who is from Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's party, sent Reuters a video message saying his
followers and other party workers had opened up pages using his
name and that he plans to contact Facebook so that he can open
an account.
"I want to use social media following all norms," he said.
The world's largest social network is facing a public-relations
and political crisis in India after the Wall Street Journal
reported that one of its employees, Ankhi Das, opposed applying
the company's hate-speech rules to profiles in Singh's name
which had called Muslims traitors.
Some Facebook employees have raised questions about whether
adequate procedures and content regulation practices were being
followed by the India team, sources familiar with discussions
told Reuters last month.
On Thursday Facebook said it will also remove Pages, Groups and
accounts set up to represent Singh and Facebook events when it
comes to know the individual is participating, but will continue
to allow wider discussion of him, including praise & support.
"The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and
it is what led us to our decision to remove his account," the
company said in a statement
The Wall Street Journal reported the move earlier, saying at
least five Facebook profiles dedicated to Singh, which once had
more than 300,000 followers, showed a message saying "This
Content Isn't Available Right Now".
(Reporting by Sankalp Phartiyal in New Delhi,and Sudarshan
Varadhan in Chennai; writing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee editing
by Jason Neely and Philippa Fletcher)
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