A former Facebook employee, who quit the company two years ago over differences over its response to the Black Lives Matter movement, told a Delhi Assembly panel on Thursday that the social media giant has a bias towards ruling governments and needs to be regulated.

Mark S. Luckie, a former strategic partner manager for global influencers focused on underrepresented voices at Facebook’s headquarters in California’s Menlo Park, appeared before the Delhi legislative Assembly’s committee for peace and harmony that is looking into the alleged culpability of Facebook or its employees in communal riots here in February that killed 53 people.

Luckie said: “The goal with the recruiting of heads of public policy and those who work on those teams is to find people who have already talked to or have strong relationships with the governments which with they work. Facebook would like you to believe it’s a politically agnostic platform, but that will not be true as long as it hires from particular groups. If a person has a background with a particular party or government agency, their thinking is mostly likely to be influenced by their past.”

The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook’s public policy director for south and central Asia, Ankhi Das, opposed banning BJP leaders for hate speech. Another Facebook public policy executive — a role that entails both enforcing rules on hate speech and lobbying with governments — Shivnath Thukral went slow on acting against another provocateur of the BJP, Assam MLA Shiladitya Dev.

Thukral replaced Das last month.

Luckie explained that the trend of Facebook in several instances is that “the minority group is having their content reported at a higher rate or that misinformation is allowed to spread like what you saw in the Delhi riots… Governments have allowed Facebook to get away with as much as they like because often the government does not understand tech or how Facebook works”.

Luckie said transparency would be Facebook’s downfall.

“They want people to know as little information about the company as possible…”