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India Summons Meta Executives Over Brief Restriction of PM Modi’s Facebook Post
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Government Demands High-Level ExplanationIndia has summoned senior executives of US tech giant Meta to explain why a Facebook post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefly restricted last week, with the government deeming the company’s initial explanation “inadequate” .
“We have asked Meta to come in at the highest level and explain what is happening,” said S. Krishnan, Secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), on Thursday .
Krishnan did not specify which executives were requested but noted the government wants both a “policy-level and technical understanding of the issues” .
Meta attributed the removal to a technical error in its automated content filters .
Despite the brief restriction on Facebook, the video has since garnered over 404 million views on Instagram, what the government described as a global record .