A while back, whistleblower Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Meta (previously Facebook), made public four internal documents from Meta that she had submitted to the Indian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology. She went public after she failed to receive a call to testify before the panel.
The documents had shown that despite being flagged, Facebook did not take down a network of fake and inauthentic accounts connected to Vinod Kumar Sonkar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh.
"Frankly, the documents that they (the Wire) presented were too succinct, too clear. You've seen the documents that I gave to Moneycontrol. They are not self-contained and simple. That is typical for tech documents. You have to sift through the jargon," Zhang said.
This comes a couple of days after The Wire’s public fall-out with Meta and later the withdrawal of articles for internal investigation by the news platform.
The articles alleged that the BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya was given special privileges under the social media giant’s XCheck programme, giving him control over content -- in this case, certain Instagram posts – which he was able to remove.
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