The Head of Facebook’s cyber-security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher in a statement on Monday announced that it had taken down Facebook pages linked to the “Congress IT Cell and an IT firm Silver Touch” without mentioning the links of Silver Touch, an Ahmedabad based firm, with the BJP.

The slip was suspicious and appeared motivated at election time, especially because the pages maintained by the IT firm had ten times the traffic of pages allegedly linked to the Congress IT Cell and had double the ad-spend.

Gleicher went on to explain, “When we take down one of these networks, it is because of their deceptive behaviour. It’s not because of the content they are sharing. The posts themselves may not be false and may not go against our community standards.”

15 such pages linked to individuals were associated with Silver Touch. The portfolio of Silver Touch includes websites for Rashtrapati Bhavan, several union ministries, the Nehru Memorial Museum Library, Gandhi Heritage Portal, the Make in India event mobile app, and several Gujarat government institutions.