Facebook on Wednesday night temporarily blocked the hashtag “#resignmodi”, which was critical of India’s handling of the ongoing coronaviru...
Facebook on Wednesday night temporarily blocked the hashtag “#resignmodi”, which was critical of India’s handling of the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
Users searching for the hashtag were shown a message that said such posts were “temporarily hidden here” because “some content in those posts goes against our community standards”.
The hashtag was later restored after users pointed it out on Twitter. “This hashtag has been restored and we are looking at into what happened,” Facebook Communications Policy Director Andy Stone tweeted.
This hashtag has been restored and we are looking into what happened.
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) April 28, 2021
“We temporarily blocked this hashtag by mistake, not because the Indian government asked us to, and have since restored it,” a Facebook spokesperson said, reported The Guardian.
Only the posts with the hashtag seemed to be hidden as users were still able to post content, according to The Wire. The hashtag was restored at 1.20 am on Thursday (Indian Standard Time).
The hashtag was hidden within India, the United States, Canada and England, according to the searches run by BuzzFeed News.
India is currently in the middle of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Cases are increasing at an alarming rate. On Wednesday, India registered a record 3,60,960 new coronavirus cases in a day, taking the total number of infections since the pandemic broke out...
