Facebook users offered handguns, rifles, shotguns and bullets for sale on the platform to members of a forum dedicated to a Hindu extremist organization with a history of violence in India.
Eight posts, some of which had been online since April, caught the attention of Raqib Hameed Naik, the founder of a group that monitors attacks on religious minorities in India. He started reporting them to Metaplatforms Inc. in late January as violating the company’s publicly stated policy that prohibits individuals from buying or selling firearms or ammunition on Facebook platforms.