Last resort of guilty is to hurl baseless charges at Left: CPI(M) on Prasad's letter to Facebook CEO

  CPI(M) hit out at Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday over his accusation that social media giant Facebook was biased against "right wing".

In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Prasad, Union Minister for Information Techlogy, has said it is problematic that employees of his company are on record abusing prime minister and senior cabinet ministers of country while still working and managing important positions in Facebook India.

"I have been informed that in run-up to 2019 general election in India, re was a concerted effort by Facebook India manment to t just delete ps or substantially reduce ir reach, but also offer recourse or right of appeal to affected people who are supportive of right-of-centre ideology," Prasad wrote.

Media reports suggest that Facebook India team, right from its managing director to or senior officials, is dominated by people belonging to a particular political belief, minister said in letter.

"People from this political predisposition have been overwhelmingly defeated by people in successive free and fair elections. After having lost all democratic legitimacy, y are trying to discredit India's democratic process by dominating decision-making apparatus of important social media platforms," he said.

(Im Credits:PTI)