India is one of Facebook’s most important markets, where it has more users than anywhere else in the world. The company has rushed to cash in on India’s digital boom in recent years, with more ...

By November, Facebook’s user base in India was 447 million strong, lagging its Meta sister apps. WhatsApp — which Facebook acquired in 2014 — had 563 million Indian users. Instagram, bought ...

Facebook says it is working hard to combat hate speech. “We want to make it clear that we denounce hate in any form,” said Mohan, Facebook’s managing director in India, in his Aug. 21 blog post.

Soon, without any direction from the user, the Facebook account was flooded with pro-Modi propaganda and anti-Muslim hate speech. “300 dogs died now say long live India, death to Pakistan ...

India's government on Friday warned social media firms including Facebook and YouTube to repeatedly remind users that local laws prohibit them from posting deepfakes and content that spreads ...

Many political ads on Facebook in India hide their true buyers, according to civil society groups and recent studies, threatening the integrity of the process.