https://www.afinalwarning.com/515499.html (Natural News) Social media giant Facebook blocked posts with a hashtag calling for the resignation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The suppression came amid a second wave of Wuhan coronavirus infections in India that has crippled the country’s healthcare system. Many have criticized Modi’s leadership due to the way he and other officials have responded to the pandemic.
Facebook blocked more than 12,000 posts critical of Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party on April 28. Many Indian users noticed that posts with the hashtag #ResignModi were no longer visible, and search results for these returned a “temporarily hidden” message due to the content purportedly “going against Facebook community standards.” The social media site eventually restored the aforementioned post hours later.
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Facebook Reverses Block on Posts Calling For Indian PM Modi to Resign
By Rudy TakalaApr 28th, 2021, 5:14 pm
Narendra Modi to resign after blocking them from view for at least several hours.
“This hashtag has been restored and we are looking into what happened,” Facebook’s
Andy Stone wrote in an afternoon message on Twitter in response to observers noticed who noticed that messages containing the phrase #ResignModi had been suppressed not only in India, but in countries including the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
It’s the second time in a week a social-media company has suppressed messages critical of Modi, whose country has been dealing with one of the world’s worst remaining Covid-19 outbreaks. Twitter acknowledged on Monday that it had hidden messages critical of Modi in response to a government order, including one from cabinet member