Inside the vast digital campaign by Hindu nationalists to inflame India

The BJP and affiliated Hindu nationalist groups have been in the global vanguard of using social media for political aims — to advance their ideology and cement their grip over the world’s largest electoral democracy. They have perfected the spread of inflammatory, often false and bigoted material on an industrial scale, earning both envy and condemnation beyond India’s borders.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/26/hindu-nationalist-social-media-hate-campaign/

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Under India’s pressure, Facebook let propaganda and hate speech thrive

Interviews with more than 20 current and former employees and a review of newly obtained internal Facebook documents illustrate how executives repeatedly shied away from punishing the BJP or associated accounts. The interviews and documents show that local Facebook executives failed to take down videos and posts of Hindu nationalist leaders, even when they openly called for killing Indian Muslims.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/26/india-facebook-propaganda-hate-speech/

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