End Facebook’s ‘systematic interference’ in India’s democracy: Sonia Gandhi

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday urged the federal government to place an finish to the alleged “systematic interference” of Facebook and different social media giants in India’s electoral politics.

Making a Zero Hour submission within the Lok Sabha, Gandhi referred to a report revealed in Al Jazeera and The Reporters’ Collective claiming that Facebook had supplied BJP cheaper offers for election commercials as in comparison with different political events.

“I urge the government to put an end to the systematic interference and influence of Facebook and other social media giants in the electoral politics of the world’s largest democracy. This is beyond partisan politics. We need to protect democracy and social harmony regardless of who is in power,” she stated.