No one can be allowed to interfere in our nation's affairs: Rahul on allegations against Facebook

Congress leer Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday claimed that international media has "exposed" Facebook and WhatsApp's "brazen assault" on India's democracy and social harmony, as he demanded an investigation into allegations against m.

With his tweet hitting out at social media giant, Gandhi tagged a recent article by Wall Street Journal on how questions were raised by Facebook employees on its India team's neutrality after an executive posted internal messs allegedly favouring BJP.

"International media have fully exposed Facebook's and WhatsApp's brazen assault on India's democracy and social harmony," he said.

" one, let alone a foreign company, can be allowed to interfere in our nation's affairs. y must be investigated immediately and when found guilty, punished," Gandhi tweeted.

popular messaging app WhatsApp is also owned by Facebook.

Ar report in Wall Street Journal earlier this month and one in Time magazine h brought to fore similar allegations.

Dismissing Congress' allegations, BJP leers have been alleging that Facebook favours or parties, with ruling party's IT cell he Amit Malviya alleging a "Congress-Facebook nexus".

Congress has written two letters to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeking action against its India team, an independent probe into ir functioning and replacing m.

Hitting out at Congress for alleging a nexus between BJP and Facebook, Malviya h on Saturday said it is t some social media firm but people of India who have rejected Rahul Gandhi and his party.

After a major political row erupted over allegations against it, Facebook h earlier said its social media platform prohibits hate speech and content that incites violence, ding se policies are enforced globally without regard to political affiliation. 

(Im Credits:PTI)