Opposition parties write to Meta, Google, allege bias for ruling government

Opposition parties under the I.N.D.I.A coalition have written to Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet and Google chief Sundar Pichai citing stories done by The Washington Post which claimed that Meta’s platforms WhatsApp and Facebook as well as Google’s YouTube had been used to spread “social disharmony and inciting communal hatred in India”.

In the letter to Zuckerberg, the opposition coalition parties have written that “Meta is culpable of abetting social disharmony and inciting communal hatred in India”.

“Further we have data that shows algorithmic moderation and suppression of Opposition leaders’ content on your platform while also promoting ruling party content,” the letter said.


In a similar letter to Pichai, the parties have said that the reports by The Washington Post show “blatant partisanship and bias” towards one political formation by a private foreign company which is “tantamount to interfering in India’s democracy”.