Rahul Gandhi attacks Facebook, says its ‘worse for democracy’

On Wednesday former Congress president Rahul Gandhi attacked social media giant Facebook and alleged that it was “worse for democracy”.

“Meta-worse for democracy,” Gandhi said on Twitter, accusing the social media giant Meta of helping the BJP reach out to voters during the elections, Rahul Gandhi shared a compilation of news reports 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 on Wednesday to put an end to the alleged “systematic interference” of Facebook and other social media giants in India’s electoral politics.

“I urge the government to put an end to the systematic interference and influence of Facebook and other social media giants in the electoral politics of the world’s largest democracy. This is beyond partisan politics,” Sonia Gandhi said in her zero hour mention.