Meta apologises over removal of PM video, child sexual abuse ads; officials to be summoned again

New Delhi, 6/8:: Meta has apologised for the temporary removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Facebook post as well as for content moderation failures involving child sexual abuse material (CSAM), deepfakes and paid boosting of certain content, government sources said on Wednesday after senior executives met Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
Meta’s global affairs head Joel Kaplan, who flew in from the United States, issued a written statement saying he ‘apologised to the minister on behalf of Meta for the error restricting PM Modi’s post’.