BUZZFEED – July 4 – Facebook's plans to roll out a dating feature later this year already face growing opposition in the company's largest market: India. The country's vocal, conservative far-right groups, which have for years protested dating and premarital relationships by calling them "Western imports," have turned their attention to what they see as a huge threat to Indian culture from Facebook. "Too many young Indians are already aping the West," said Surender Jain, general secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), a right-wing nationalist Hindu organization with close ties to India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
by Pranav Dixit
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