🚨 BREAKING: this morning activists sealed off London Facebook’s HQ, protesting its profiting from hate speech in India ahead of the general elections starting Friday

Protestors declared Facebook’s London HQ a crime scene, exposing Meta's failure to take effective action to stop the flow of hate-inciting content on its platform.

Activists are urging Meta to adopt immediately key demands #IndiaElections2024

@foundationtls India Labour Solidarity (ILS) India Civil Watch International Hindus for Human Rights UK UK Indian Muslim Council InSAF India Ekō PeopleVsBigTech

India, the world’s largest democracy with almost 1 billion voters, will be heading to the polls starting this Friday. #IndiaElections2024

Its democracy is threatened by the spread of hate speech, extremism and disinformation on social media, whose whole business model feeds on

' #IndiaElections2024 are a formidable challenge to the very foundations of democracy... social media must now demonstrate that they will radically depart from business as usual in which profits are more important than people,” Dr Ritumbra Manuvie Foundation London Story

“Meta have shown blatant disregard for domestic law and human life in India. That’s why we’re calling on them to urgently do what is necessary under India’s domestic laws: enforce an election silence period.” Rajiv Sinha Hindus for Human Rights UK

In a record year for elections, with almost 2 billion people set to go to the polls across 50 countries, Meta’s Facebook has been failing democracy: promoting hate-filled content funded by dark money advertisers, which is having real-world consequences for minority communities,