TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ A slugfest erupted between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday following a report in the Wall Street Journal claiming that Facebook ignored applying its hate speech rules to politicians of the ruling party in India.
Seizing on the report, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh of spreading “fake news” using Facebook and WhatsApp to influence the electorate, triggering a sharp counter-attack from Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad who reminded the opposition party of the Cambridge Analytica issue.
The Congress demanded a probe by a joint parliamentary committee into the charges mentioned in the report, saying they threaten the foundation of Indian democracy and need to be investigated. Hitting back, Prasad tweeted, “Losers who cannot influence people even in their own party keep cribbing that the entire world is controlled by BJP and RSS.”
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