Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday red flagged the “rising danger of social media abuse to hack Indian democracy” and urged the government to end the interference of social media giants in national electoral politics.
Noting that this issue was beyond partisan politics and was important for all parties irrespective of who was in power, Sonia Gandhi said in the Lok Sabha today that global companies like Facebook and Twitter are being used increasingly to shape political narratives by leaders, political parties and their proxies.
“It has repeatedly come to public notice that global social media companies are not providing a level playing field to all political parties,” she said in Zero Hour in a rare intervention.
