The loud, troubling silence of Ajit Mohan and Facebook

While the Supreme Court has given Facebook a reprieve, it is increasingly clear that India is getting shoddy treatment from the social media company.

In what can only be dubbed a public relations exercise ahead of the November US elections, 16 years after it was founded and 2.4 billion users later, Facebook on Monday said that it will explicitly ban any content that “denies or distorts” the Holocaust. This, after years of letting people get away with claiming that the Holocaust never happened.

The Western world has hailed this as progress. A step in the right direction for a company which has long held that its platform is not the arbiter of truth, even while it has been used for the most despicable acts, …

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Ashish K. Mishra

Ashish is the editor-in-chief of The Morning Context. One of the best-known business feature writers in India, he was selected for Germany’s Robert Bosch Stiftung Fellowship in 2012 and received the Mumbai Press Club RedInk certificate of recognition in 2015 for his story “Inside the Network 18 takeover”. Before joining The Morning Context, Ashish co-founded The Ken, where he was managing editor. His previous writing stints include Mint, Forbes India and The Economic Times.

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