| Three years ago, Facebook's propaganda hunters uncovered a vast influence operation that used hundreds of fake accounts to praise the Indian army's crackdown in the restive border region of Kashmir. The network was operated by a unit of the Indian army and was a clear violation of Facebook's rules. But it still took a year before Facebook executives in the United States ordered the network removed. That's just one example of the power the Indian government wields over social media companies operating in the world's most populous country. |
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