I posted the original Guardian story yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825990 but perhaps because of my lousy copyediting of the title it only attracted five upvotes. This follow-up story seems pretty good and the title was not difficult to squeeze under 80 chars.

The story of Facebook treating India's ruling BJP has attracted a fair bit of coverage - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... - but the story suggests FB values good connections with the quasi-fascist ruling party over the risk of yet more damage to its reputation.