‘Apologise within three days or…’: Parliamentary panel warns Meta's Mark Zuckerberg over PM Modi reel row
The temporary removal of PM's reel addressing youth and paper leak measures on Facebook triggered an outrage, with the BJP demanding Mark Zuckerberg's apology.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology has demanded that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg issue an apology within three days over the temporary removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook Reel, committee chair Nishikant Dubey announced. The committee asserted that deleting the Prime Minister's video was not the role of a neutral intermediary, but that of a publisher.
Dubey emphasized that Zuckerberg's failure to apologize would result in the loss of Meta's "safe harbour" protection under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act. The controversy arose after Meta briefly removed the July 23 video in which Modi addressed nationwide protests over NEET-UG paper leak and announced measures for fast-track courts.
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