Congressional Briefing: Facebook Platforms Hate in India: Haugen Revelations

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has exposed how Facebook enabled the exponential spread of hate speech and violence against India’s religious minorities, especially Muslims. Panelists at the Congressional Briefing shine a light on how Haugen's leaks confirm what Indian civil society actors have been saying for years: that Facebook's failure to take hate speech seriously, and its complicity in the spread of disinformation and calls to violence have led to violence in India.

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The Real Face of Facebook in India
How Social Media Have Become a Weapon and Dissemninator of Disinformation and Falsehood
  • Authorship: Cyril Sam and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
  • Publisher: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
  • 214 pages
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Pegasus Deposition

Link of the recording of the 70-minute deposition on 14 February 2022 by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta to the Supreme Court-appointed committee headed by Justice (retired) R V Raveendran on allegations of misuse of the Israeli Pegasus spyware on Indian citizens: https://pegasus-india-investigation.in/depositions/paranjoy-guha-thakurta-statement/