YouTube approved dozens of ads promoting voter suppression and incitement to violence ahead of the upcoming election in India, according to a new investigation by the rights groups Global Witness ...

YouTube approved dozens of ads promoting voter suppression and incitement to violence ahead of the upcoming election in India, according to a new investigation by the rights groups Global Witness ...

Many political ads on Facebook in India hide their true buyers, according to civil society groups and recent studies, threatening the integrity of the process.

The BJP spent 8.6 billion rupees on election-related ads and publicity while the Congress spent about 767 million rupees in the last fiscal year 2022/23, audited party reports show.

India’s biggest and main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, has accused the government of hampering its ability to campaign by freezing its bank accounts over a tax dispute from 2018.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been told to take down an election campaign video, which portrays Muslims in a stigmatised discriminatory narrative.