Can’t evade legislative scrutiny: SC to Facebook on Delhi Assembly notice
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The bench led by justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul ruled on Thursday that intermediaries such as Facebook were accountable for content that may amplify hate, divisiveness and polarisation in a liberal democracy such as India, and cannot evade legislative scrutiny on this score.
The Supreme Court refused to quash the summons issued to Facebook India managing director Ajit Mohan by a Delhi assembly panel, which had asked him to depose before it to explain the social media company’s alleged role in amplifying hate in the capital ahead of the February 2020 riots.