The Bharatiya Janata Party, in the run-up to the 2019 Loksabha elections, flagged to Facebook India a list of 44 pages opposed to the party, claiming they were “in violation of expected standards” and carried posts “not in line with facts”, the Indian Express reported.
The report also said that as of Monday, 14 of these pages were no longer on the platform. An official account of the Bhim Army, satire site “We Hate BJP”, unofficial Congress-supporting pages, and a page called “The Truth of Gujarat” sharing mostly Alt News fact checks are some of the pages flagged by the BJP that are on the platform.The pages of the site in support of journalists Ravish Kumar and Vinod Dua were also taken down according to the report. #VindoDua #Facebook #BJP
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