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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: Facebook’s research on India; Groww triples in value; Clear raises $75 mln; and a chat with Razorpay’s Shashank Kumar
Description: Facebook, which sees India as a vital market, is also a platform used for spreading hate and misinformation in the country, Bloomberg reports, citing a 46-page research note that is part of the documents released by Frances Haugen, the former Facebook product manager who turned whistleblower.
The report — ‘An Indian test user’s descent into a sea of polarizing, nationalist messages’ — shows how little control Facebook has in one of its most important markets, where it has also invested close to $6 billion into a partnership with Reliance Industries, the country’s biggest conglomerate, according to the Bloomberg report, whic...