Senior Meta official apologises over removal of PM Modi’s video: Sources
Zuckerberg also apologised for the errors in operating the intermediary platforms, the sources said.
Meta's chief global officer Joel Kaplan apologized on Wednesday to Indian Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, for a technical error that led to a video message by Prime Minister Narendra Modi being removed for five hours. The incident occurred after Modi's video addressing Indian youth on Facebook was briefly restricted between 12:30 am and 5:30 am on July 28.
Kaplan made the apology during a meeting with Vaishnaw, stating that the error resulted in the restriction of PM Modi's post. The meeting followed a three-day deadline set by Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey, who heads the parliamentary committee on IT, demanding Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg to apologize for the removal of Modi's video, or face the loss of statutory immunity.
Meta had initially attributed the incident to a technical glitch and claimed that the content was removed in error and subsequently restored on the platform.
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