The Delhi Legislative Assembly’s Peace and Harmony Committee, chaired by Aam Aadmi Party MLA Raghav Chadha, on Thursday questioned former F...
The Delhi Legislative Assembly’s Peace and Harmony Committee, chaired by Aam Aadmi Party MLA Raghav Chadha, on Thursday questioned former Facebook employee Mark S Luckie, regarding allegations that the social media company did not properly apply hate speech rules and policies, contributing to the communal violence that hit the city in February.
Luckie was a former Facebook strategic partner manager for global influencers. He quit the company in 2018 after accusing it of “failing its Black employees” and of not doing enough to address its lack of diversity, according to The Indian Express.
In a statement, the panel said that Luckie made “extremely scathing revelations” on the internal functioning of Facebook during his deposition before the panel via video conference, PTI reported.
He also claimed that the social media giant’s community standards have been compromised due to “repeated interference” by top Facebook officials, including policy heads, at the behest of political parties. The executive team of the social media giant, including its Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, are “generally aware of such gross inaction and misappropriation” of the community standards and other policies of the company, he added.
According to the statement issued by Chadha, Luckie alleged that top managerial posts at Facebook are given to those who have “strong governmental...
