Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the Senate judiciary and commerce committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA (File, April 10, 2018). Olivier Douliery/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images)
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But during one of the biggest crises India has ever faced, on the eve of the final phase of local elections in a key state, and just as CEO Mark Zuckerberg was announcing record profits of almost $10 billion for the last three months, Facebook has a lot of explaining to do.Unfortunately for users in India, the company does not seem to want to explain what happened. When asked for a more detailed explanation of just how this “mistake” happened, Facebook declined to elaborate, saying only that “the hashtag was mistakenly blocked due to some content associated with it.”“We temporarily blocked this hashtag by mistake, not because the Indian government asked us to, and have since restored it,” Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone said in an emailed statement.
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