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The Facebook official also said that the company is making progress on enforcing and conducting regular audits of its process to ensure fairness and accuracy.

Amid political slugfest involving social media giant Facebook, a company spokesperson has said that the platform “prohibits hate speech and content that incites violence. “We enforce these policies globally without regard to anyone’s political position/party affiliation,” the spokesperson added as reported by news agency ANI.

The authority likewise said that the organization is gaining ground on implementing and directing customary reviews of its procedures to guarantee decency and exactness.

We prohibit hate speech&content that incites violence&we enforce these policies globally without regard to anyone’s political position/party affiliation. We’re making progress on enforcement&conduct regular audits of our process to ensure fairness&accuracy: Facebook spokesperson pic.twitter.com/8zHJhZuXXJ

— ANI (@ANI) August 17, 2020

This comes a day after Congress pioneer and previous gathering boss Rahul Gandhi asserted that the BJP and its ideological parent the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) control Facebook and WhatsApp in India.

In a tweet, Gandhi stated, “They spread phony news and scorn through it and use it to impact the electorate. At long last, the American media has come out with reality with regards to Facebook”. His tweet additionally contained pieces of media reports.

Senior Congress pioneer and MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted out saying, “The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology would unquestionably wish to get notification from @Facebook about these reports and what they propose to do about loathe discourse in India”.

Congress pioneers Ajay Maken, Praveen Chakravarty, and Rohan Gupta, who requested the formation of a Joint Parliamentary Committee to investigate the issue.

Losers who cannot influence people even in their own party keep cribbing that the entire world is controlled by BJP & RSS.

You were caught red-handed in alliance with Cambridge Analytica & Facebook to weaponise data before the elections & now have the gall to question us? https://t.co/NloUF2WZVY

— Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) August 16, 2020

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has completely denied the charges.

Association serves Ravi Shankar Prasad hammered Gandhi and answered to his tweet saying, “Washouts who can’t impact individuals even in their own gathering continue cribbing that the whole world is constrained by BJP and RSS. You were found in the act in partnership with Cambridge Analytica and Facebook to weaponize information before the races and now have the nerve to address us?”