Besides risking infuriating India’s ruling Hindu nationalist politicians, banning Bajrang Dal may possibly precipitate physical attacks against Facebook personnel or facilities,” an internal Facebook report mentioned, according to the newspaper.
In August, the Journal had reported on an alleged bias in Facebook’s policies that endorsed the ruling BJP in truth, former Facebook executive Ankhi Das had lobbied in favour of a leader of the ruling dispensation who created anti-Muslim comments.
Facebook, which banned the politician just days following the report was published, denied the most ‘egregious’ of charges but admitted that it had to do far better to curb hate speech. Das stepped down quickly following.