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Meta, Mark Zuckerberg’s apology isn’t enough. Big Tech can’t be blind to the harm it causes
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The Indian Express
On July 23, Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted a video addressed to students and young voters, promising strict action against paper leaks and speaking about exam reforms.
A Prime Minister speaking directly to anxious students, silenced by a foreign platform’s automated system, even briefly, was never going to be brushed aside as a technical hiccup.
Police in Hyderabad and Maharashtra have since registered FIRs, and, remarkably, named Meta’s India head in some of them, arguing the platform failed to detect or curb the morphed content fast enough.
When Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer and its global policy head were summoned, the questioning went beyond the Modi video.
The writer is a defence and tech policy adviser and author of The Digital Decades: On 30 Years of the Internet in India