Senior journalist Paranjoy Guha-Thakurta talks to Kumar Sambhav of Reporters' Collective, the author of a four-part series of articles on Facebook and India's politics. They discuss how the failure of India's election commission to regulate surrogate ads on social media benefited the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the time period around the 2019 national elections. They also talk about how Facebook's policies on ad pricing gave the BJP an edge in its social media campaign.
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The Real Face of Facebook in India
How Social Media Have Become a Weapon and Dissemninator of Disinformation and Falsehood
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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/