Public Policy on Social Media Greetings, The contemporary government is being questioned, for its allegedly escaping the scrutiny of social media giant. Based on an article in Wall Street Journal which claimed that Facebook didn't targeted hateful/ hate spreading posts by BJP. In 2009, critics noticed Holocaust deniers on platform. In 2015 same was discussed with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Germany passed a law in 2017 regarding Hate Speech. Facebook has been accused of tolerating posts from POTUS Donald Trump. It has come in notice that Facebook has asked legal office in India to conduct human rights audit of its platform. Facebook doesn't want to be making rules and regulations regarding content on its platform. Facebook deploys third party companies for monitoring content. India's Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, protects platforms from having liability for content uploaded on them. but Trump as well as current government in India, are worki...

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