New Delhi:
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi attacked social media giant Facebook today and alleged that it was “worse for democracy”.
Mr Gandhi shared a compilation of news reports on Twitter, accusing the social media giant of helping the BJP reach out to voters during the elections.
“Meta-worse for democracy,” Rahul Gandhi said on Twitter.
He also shared a report of Al Jazeera and The Reporters’ Collective which claimed that Facebook had offered BJP cheaper deals for election advertisements as compared to other political parties.
In Lok Sabha, Congress president Sonia Gandhi urged the government today to put an end to the alleged “systematic interference” of Facebook and other social media giants in India’s electoral politics.
