On November 1, 2021, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who chairs the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communication and Information & Technology, had said in a tweet that he had sought permission from the Speaker to allow for Zhang’s deposition. Parliamentary rules require that a testimony by a foreign national needs the approval of the Speaker. “I do not expect the Speaker to provide his consent at this point. It has been 13 months since I came forward publicly, and 6 months since the Lok Sabha (Standing Committee on IT) voted unanimously to invite me. That is more than enough time for anyone to provide a simple yes or no answer,” Zhang told The Indian Express.
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Zhang was a data scientist at Facebook between 2018 to 2020, and during her time with the company was able to track down fake accounts run by political parties around the world that were operated by paid individuals solely to prop up the popularity of political leaders and their parties. In India, she found five such different networks — two of them belonged to the Bharatiya Janata Party, two to the Indian National Congress, and one belonged to Aam Aadmi Party.
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Zhang had shared her findings with Tharoor, which were also circulated among the other members of the IT panel.
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