India, Aug. 30 -- The digital media giant Facebook has over 340 million users and its WhatsApp chat service has 400 million users in India. However, the global giant has come under scanner after a Wall Street Journal report without any ambiguity indicated that Facebook had gone easy on hate speech by a ruling party lawmaker in India to protect the company's business prospects in its biggest market. India is a very important market for Facebook and during lockdown on April 22, 2020, it announced to invest $5.7 billion in Reliance Jio or about 43,574 crore for a 9.99 per cent stake to strengthen its presence this side.

Now the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology headed by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has summoned F...