Facebook faces mounting attack from parties; says it prohibits hate speech

Facebook on Monday faced a mounting attack with the Congress and the CPI(M) insisting on a probe by a joint parliamentary committee over the Wall Street Journal's report that it refused to apply hate speech rules to certain BJP politicians even as the social media giant asserted that its policies are enforced globally without regard to political affiliation. 

The Congress alleged that Facebook's "inaction" against hate content "destabilises democracy" in India and that it was applying different rules for different countries which was “unacceptable”. 

In the midst of controversy, Ankhi Das, a senior Facebook executive in India, filed a police