{"id":1169,"date":"2021-04-15T11:29:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T09:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/15\/facebook-planned-to-remove-fake-accounts-in-india-until-it-realized-a-bjp-politician-was-involved\/"},"modified":"2021-04-15T11:29:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T09:29:55","slug":"facebook-planned-to-remove-fake-accounts-in-india-until-it-realized-a-bjp-politician-was-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/15\/facebook-planned-to-remove-fake-accounts-in-india-until-it-realized-a-bjp-politician-was-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India \u2013 until it realized a BJP politician was involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower points to double standard in Facebook\u2019s enforcement of rules against powerful<\/p>\n<p>Facebook allowed a network of fake accounts to artificially inflate the popularity of an MP from India\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), for months after being alerted to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>The company was preparing to remove the fake accounts but paused when it found evidence that the politician was probably directly involved in the network, internal documents seen by the Guardian show.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/15\/facebook-india-bjp-fake-accounts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7d484f26c8176ae812cc738e83a91da345a8041c\/138_26_2807_1684\/master\/2807.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=95e9d4c9c30c2b8a5b984e3dab628625\" title=\"Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India \u2013 until it realized a BJP politician was involved\" \/>Whistleblower points to double standard in Facebook\u2019s enforcement of rules against powerful<br \/>\nFacebook allowed a network of fake accounts to artificially inflate the popularity of an MP from India\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), for months after being alerted to the problem.<br \/>\nThe company was preparing to remove the fake accounts but paused when it found evidence that the politician was probably directly involved in the network, internal documents seen by the Guardian show. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower points to double standard in Facebook\u2019s enforcement of rules against powerful Facebook allowed a network of fake accounts to artificially inflate the popularity of an MP from India\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), for months after being alerted to the problem. The company was preparing to remove the fake accounts but paused when it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/15\/facebook-planned-to-remove-fake-accounts-in-india-until-it-realized-a-bjp-politician-was-involved\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India \u2013 until it realized a BJP politician was involved<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}