A group of 54 retired civil servants wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday urging him to audit its hate speech policy in India. The letter comes in the wake of a Wall Street Journal report which had accused the social media giant of turning a blind eye to hate speech propagated by politicians of the ruling party in India.

In its letter, constitutional conduct, a group formed by ex-civil servants noted that Facebook failed to implement its own policy of discouraging hate speech in India. It also alleged that the platform had implemented the rules in a partisan manner.

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“That this seems to have been done to protect Facebook’s commercial interests is even more reprehensible,” they wrote. The group identified themselves as “neutral, impartial and committed to the Indian Constitution.”

The signatories also highlighted the rise in religious unrest in the country and pointed to the recent legislation like the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Registry of Citizens. They also wrote about the increase in hate crimes and the surge in ‘cow vigilantism.’

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“Mr Zuckerberg, you surely cannot be unaware that religious unrest has become a serious problem in India. Commercial interests at the cost of human lives? If these are the crass calculations Facebook indulges in, it is no surprise that the calculus of hate is spreading like a virus in many parts of the world,” the letter read.

They also said that to blame the algorithms of artificial intelligence is both to evade corporate responsibility and to deny the human agency involved in the framing of those very algorithms.