New Delhi: Hitting back at the Congress for accusing that the BJP and RSS are controlling Facebook, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad tweeted about reported alliances between the party and Cambridge Analytica.
“Losers who cannot influence people even in their own party keep cribbing that the entire world is controlled by BJP and RSS. You were caught red-handed in alliance with Cambridge Analytica and Facebook to weaponise data before the elections and now have the gall to question us,” he said.
Following a report in the Wall Stree Journal that Facebook ignored applying its hate speech rules to BJP leaders in India, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP and RSS of spreading ‘fake news’ using Facebook and WhatsApp to influence the electorate.
“BJP & RSS control Facebook & Whatsapp in India. They spread fake news and hatred through it and use it to influence the electorate. Finally, the American media has come out with the truth about Facebook,” he tweeted.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, said the panel would like to hear from Facebook about the report.