New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has summoned Facebook on September 2. The committee has asked Facebook to appear in the wake of claims that the US firm has made indecent remarks against some BJP leaders over the alleged misuse of social media platforms. Language rules not implemented. In addition to Facebook’s representatives, the committee asked representatives of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to “protect the rights of citizens” and to prevent the misuse of social/online news media platforms, with particular emphasis on protecting women in the digital space “Is asked to be present on 2 September to discuss.
According to the agenda notification issued by the Loksabha Secretariat, for the September meeting, representatives of the Ministries of Communications and Home Affairs were also called from Bihar, Jammu, and Kashmir (Jammu Kashmir) and Delhi governments (Delhi Govt). is. Representatives of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, News Broadcasters Association, Press Council of India, and Prasar Bharati have also been invited to discuss ‘Ethical Standards in Media Standards’. The notification came on a day when the senior members of the committee and BJP leader Nishikant Dubey wrote a letter to Loksabha Speaker Om Birla to remove Shashi Tharoor as the chairman of the panel. Demanded, alleging that Congress (Congress) leaders were using the platform for a political agenda.
This is a dispute
Significantly, the whole controversy related to Facebook started after the news published by the American Wall Street Journal. The news quoted anonymous sources from Facebook claiming that Facebook’s senior Indian policy officer had interfered in an internal letter to stop a permanent ban on a BJP MLA from Telangana for allegedly posting posts containing communal allegations.
After this, there was a tremendous war between Twitter and Dubey on Twitter. Later, on the controversy related to Facebook, Tharoor said that the Standing Committee on Information Technology will seek answers from this social media company on this subject. Dubey objected to his statement.
In this case, Tharoor and Nishikant Dubey have also given notice of breach of privilege against each other to the Lok Sabha Speaker.
