New Delhi: Delhi Assembly Committee on Peace and Harmony Facebook Facebook Official on Thursday About the content of hatred associated with riots in Northeast Delhi in February 2020 posted on the platform.
The panel asks the social media giant to provide a record of user complaints against such posts one month before and two months after the riots and to register the actions taken to remove the posting posts.
Shivnath Thukral, Director of Facebook’s Public Policy, and another official present.
During an intense session for two hours, two facing difficult questions about their policies regarding posts that promote public disharmony and were asked to share details of their employees’ religious affiliates in India.
In a direct session, Chairman of the Raghav Chadha committee asked the two men to explain the composition of the Indian Facebook team along with the number of minority community employees.
Thukul replied that the social media giant did not maintain employee records based on their religion.
“Land law does not allow it,” said Thukul.
The process is intense and various questions are requested during a two-hour session.
When the question was asked on the content of hatred connected with the riots, Thukral stated: “Hate hurting us.
We don’t want to hate our platform.
Our advertisers don’t want hatred.
We don’t have tolerance to hate and constantly work.
Have it on our platform.
Believe that our platform does better than bad.
“Chadha commented,” Apart from your comments about how hate affecting your platform, it might or maybe not.
There are reports that the content of hatred promotes viriters and viriters increase income.
” Referring to the observation of the Supreme Court, Chadha said that Facebook could not wash his hands.
Chadha asks if Facebook has a specific definition of hatred speech in the Indian context.
Officials answered that hatred speech was included in the community of platform communities and they apply to India too.
Thukul stressed that offensive material was removed proactively from platforms by human reviewers and independent facts inspection institutions and through artificial intelligence.
However, he admitted that these tools were not always perfect.
There are some questions that do not provide clear answers, including whether the audited loser, on the criteria for recruiting complaints officers, about how it ensures civil society partners are not biased, and how Facebook algorithms work.
Panel members and both officials often refer to paragraphs from the July 8 Order Supreme Court to enforce the strength of Delhi’s assembly to call Facebook representatives.
Officials stated that Facebook had one billion users worldwide, at least 400 million of them in India.
The committee is told that Facebook India organizes 20 languages ​​but has a system that only includes 11 languages.
The Assembly Committee asked various questions.
Some of them were answered by Facebook officials on interactions while answers to several questions would be completed in written form, Chadha said.
The panel will be more negotiating and making decisions about whether officials must be called for another question session.