A controversy that began as social media chatter over anti-government content dominating Facebook feeds has rapidly snowballed into serious questions about the political neutrality of Meta India’s public policy leadership. Two names have emerged at the centre of the storm – Prianka Rao-Khan, former Public Policy Manager at Meta Platforms India who seems to carry visible political associations that are incompatible with her role.
Note: Her LinkedIn says she has quit Meta while her X bio says she is still with Meta.
Entire Facebook has turned anti-modi in the last 6-8 months
Whenever I open facebook I just see anti-modi posts with 50k likes. Even my long term modi supporting friends are sharing anti-modi posts
I don’t ask what changed because everyone has different reasons. BJP…
— Hindutva Knight (@HPhobiaWatch) April 5, 2026
Prianka Rao-Khan: The Profile That Raised Eyebrows
Prianka Rao-Khan is a lawyer and public policy researcher – an Oxford Blavatnik School of Government alumna who returned to India in June 2022 to join Meta as Public Policy Manager. Her LinkedIn profile indicates she served in that role until March 2026, though no official exit confirmation exists.
Her X account (@PriankaRao), now locked, carried a header image taken at a protest outside Oxford – widely shared screenshots show placard-holders in the image with the words “Shah Modi Nazi” prominently visible. Her profile page description lists her as an alumna of Oxford and NUJS Kolkata and “Currently public policy @Meta”.
Her LinkedIn activity, screenshots of which have circulated widely, shows her reacting to and sharing posts on the CAA protests, the “Constitution in Danger” narrative, which became a centrepiece of the 2024 opposition campaign, and cases involving Congress leaders.
Few more pic.twitter.com/jfHAab4SXN
— Anurag (@Jhunjhunuwala_) April 5, 2026
In one instance, she tagged her husband in a Bar and Bench post about the Supreme Court staying proceedings against Shashi Tharoor in the “scorpion” remark case.
The Husband: Congress Media Team, Supreme Court Advocate
That husband is Muhammad Khan and his X profile (@lawyerkhanmd) leaves nothing to inference. His bio reads: “Advocate in the Supreme Court of India, Media Team- Indian National Congress, Author ‘Legislating for Justice’ (OUP, 2015).”
Khan is not a Congress sympathiser operating from the sidelines – he is an active, identified member of its Media Team, publicly self-described as such on his own social media handle.
When netizens began connecting these dots over the weekend, Khan did not stay quiet. He jumped directly into the comments thread and posted: “Oye you cowardly piece of garbage. This is my wife. Let’s see how brave you are when faced with a criminal investigation for harassment. Have taken screenshots of some of the other criminal content on your profiles as well. Look fwd to seeing you justify it in person.”
The aggression of that response from the husband of a public policy manager at one of the world’s largest platforms itself became a talking point.
The Core Question Meta Must Answer
With this information, the picture that emerges is this Prianka Rao-Khan, an Oxford-trained, openly displayed protest imagery calling elected Indian leaders “Nazis,” active on CAA-related content, married to a serving Congress Media Team member. Shaped Meta India’s public policy for nearly four years.
This is not a role at a think tank or advocacy organisation. This is an individual who decided what content gets promoted, what gets suppressed, what counts as “misinformation,” and how platform rules are applied – for 500 million Indian users, including during a general election.
Meta India has issued no statement. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and IT has not commented publicly on the controversy. The question being demanded of Meta by thousands of Indian users across platforms is simple and pointed: How are individuals with such visible political affiliations being entrusted with roles that demand strict, verifiable neutrality?
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