Meta’s global team was immediately summoned by the government to explain why PM’s Facebook post was temporarily restricted. After the Wednesday meeting, government sources had said that Meta apologised for the temporary removal of Modi’s post as well as for failures ranging from child sexual abuse content to deepfakes and boosting certain content on being paid “a lot of money.” Meta later restored the post, attributing its removal to an error by artificial intelligence (AI)-powered automated content filters, and apologised. Also Read Instagram ran ads promoting child sexual abuse videos in IndiaMeta admits failure to curb child sexual abuseAfter the meeting, government sources had said Meta executives admitted to failures involving child sexual abuse content and deepfakes and admitted that “a lot of money was paid for boosting a certain type of content”. The government last month served a notice on Meta over alleged child sexual abuse material in paid advertisements on Instagram, and the meetings this week have seen the US giant being grilled on issues such as child sexual abuse material, deepfakes, safeguards for verified and prominent accounts, algorithmic bias, and compliance with Indian laws.