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MeitY Summons Meta, Instagram Executives Over Removal Of PM Modi's Student Protest ...
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has summoned Meta's global head of public policy after the company removed a Facebook post by Prime Minister Modi addressing student protesters, later restoring it and calling the takedown an error. The incident raises questions about platform accountability under India's IT Rules and the regulatory latitude applied to government content.
◆ ◆ The Wire takeaway
Meta's removal of Modi's post—even when called an error—has triggered a summons to its global policy chief, not a local compliance officer. India's government now treats arbitrary takedowns of state content as grounds for escalation to whoever actually sets platform rules, and that threshold has just dropped.
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