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India’s opposition calls for probe into fall in Gandhi YouTube views

Congress party asks platform’s parent Google to investigate whether media content is being suppressed

India’s Congress party has written to Google parent Alphabet demanding to know whether there has been “suppression” of videos by Rahul Gandhi, the country’s most prominent opposition politician, on its YouTube platform.

The party made the request in a letter, seen by the Financial Times, that was sent on Wednesday to Alphabet’s Indian-born CEO Sundar Pichai. It comes after Congress previously wrote to Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer, urging the US tech giant to make a similar inquiry last month.

The intervention threatens to drag Alphabet into the deepening political antipathy between Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party and Congress, India’s largest opposition group, a year before the next general election.

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