"Facebook critics call for release of its India human rights report", 21 January 2022

About 20 organisations, as well as whistleblowers Frances Haugen and Sophie Zhang, and former Facebook Vice President Brian Boland, have urged the world’s largest social network to release its long-delayed India Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) report, which allegedly highlights the company’s role in spreading hate speech and inciting violence in India...

The group sent a letter to Facebook’s Director of Human Rights Miranda Sissons on Jan. 3, arguing that the India human rights report.

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In a response to the letter on Wednesday, Facebook's Sissons said the project had taken longer than initially projected due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but it’s now in its final stage.

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A series of revelations by whistleblowers, including Haugen, have pointed to how Facebook allegedly put profits before user safety and how its algorithms fuel misinformation and hate speech. They have also said that Facebook had not invested enough into tools that track hate speech, especially in various regional languages in a country like India...