Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC)—an international network of journalists —has issued a statement against Meta, the parent company of Instagram, for reportedly restricting their video story in India, which addressed the forced displacement of Dalits in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam to accommodate a Google data centre, without offering any clarification.
The two-minute video, published on May 19, was based on an investigative piece by journalists Shamsheer Yousaf and Monica Jha. The article, As Data Centres Arrive, India’s Poorest Displacement, Health Risks, was published as part of ERC’s Dirty Data series, which examines the human cost of data centres. This video reported the impact of the proposed Google data centre project in Visakhapatnam on Dalit lands and local communities.
