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Facebook s safety team determined earlier this year that Bajrang Dal, a religious extremist group in India, was likely a dangerous organization that should be banned from the platform under its rules, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
But, The Journal reported, Facebook became concerned about banning the group after its security team warned that doing so could lead to attacks against Facebook s staff.
Facebook s inconsistency in enforcing its rules in India has also been motivated by fears that backlash from India s nationalist ruling party could hurt business, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.
The social media company has increasingly come under fire over its struggle to effectively and consistently police its platform especially outside of the US, where users have leveraged its platform to facilitate ethnic violence, undermine democratic processes, and crack down on free speech.
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