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Mark Zuckerberg-owned Meta had approved anti-Muslim political advertising that included hate speech and violence during the Indian General election, a report released on Monday revealed.
The investigation by ICWI (India Civil Watch International) and Eko found that Facebook and Instagram, which are owned by Meta, have allowed Artificial Intelligence to manipulate political ads containing disinformation and religious violence towards Muslims.
The report further said Meta’s system has completely failed to differentiate between harmful, fake, and violent ads.
The ads submitted in the Meta’s ad library contained hate speech towards Muslims living in India. All of these ads belong to the BJP (Bhartiya Janata Party), which has a history of inciting hatred towards Muslims. The current party leader, PM Modi, who is also the sitting prime minister of India has publically called Muslims “Infiltrators“.
As per the report, the adverts were created based on misinformation that is being spread on WhatsApp groups, which a famous YouTuber Dhruv Rathee mentioned in one of his videos.
Meta has approved ads in English, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, and Gujarati, according to the report, even if some ads are rejected by their system, with a few tweaks, you can get them online, no matter what it contains.
Meta which had pledged to prevent AI-generated manipulative content has failed to do a basic fact check for their ad system.
Meta required approval for running political ads, but a lot of accounts have been running such ads by providing fake credentials. As per the previous report of ICWI and Eko also mentioned that political parties paid a huge sum of money to buy these accounts to run political ads.
The majority of these accounts are being sold on Facebook groups having tons of members.
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This is tantamount to giving the dog a bad name in order to hang it. Islam has been victim of global negative media propaganda for so long. Well, it's not unexpected that an unstoppable and indefatigable movement or creed of Islamic status will face such challenges, which are necessary to prove its ability to stand the test of time and confirm its divine potency as a natural, pure, and practical way of life. Have we not observed that in spite of all these maliciously orchestrated media attacks,black mails and destructive criticisms waged against Islam across the globe, the faith has defiantly continued to spread like harmattan fire!? So, no negative energies can halt genuine Islamic movements.
In conclusion, I want to passionately appeal to the Muslim Ummah (fellow brothers and sisters in Islam) all over the world, that, although it's our religious duty and responsibility to speak up and not condone acts of oppression, we should demonstrate this in ways and manners that really show that we stand for peace, not violence and not terrorism.
By allowing anti Muslim Political Ads in India Mark Zuckerberg Owned - 'META' has violated their own definition of 'hate speech' which direcly attacks people based on what are known as their 'protected characrteristics'- race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, sexual Orientaton, sex, gender, gender identity, or serious disability or disease. This amounts to direct incitement of violence against 'protected characterstics' or degrades or dehumanizes people.