A whistle blower Frances Haugen, also a former employee, levelled charges against Facebook that it did not do enough to prevent the spread hate speech and misinformation.

In fact, Facebook allocated only 13 percent of its total budget to counter hate speech and misinformation in 2020 outside the US, including India.

Monica, VP, Content Safety Says they have a network of 10 fact checkers working in 11 Indian languages. There are similar number of fact checkers in the US market.

There are reviews of problematic content in 20 Indian languages. In addition, there are hate speech classifiers, which is an automated detection technology in regional languages.