Meta forced to apologise for Mark Zuckerberg’s comments about Modi election ‘loss’
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Indian lawmakers had warned of legal action if American tech giant did not apologise. Meta has apologised after it was threatened with legal action by Indian lawmakers over Mark Zuckerberg’s comments about the country’s general election. Shivnath Thukral, Meta India’s vice president of public policy, issued an apology on X after a parliamentary committee said it would summon the American company’s representatives to demand apology for Mr Zuckerberg’s remarks “tarnishing India’s image”.
Nishikant Dubey, chair of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology, had warned that they would recommend legal action if Meta did not issue an apology. “My committee will summon Meta for this wrong information,” he said. “Wrong information in any democratic country tarnishes the image of that country. That organisation will have to apologise to the Indian parliament and the people here for this mistake.”.
Mr Zuckerberg angered the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party with comments he made on American podcaster Joe Rogan’s show on 10 January. Speaking about how the Joe Biden administration in the US had pressured Facebook to censor information related to the pandemic, he said the “reaction to Covid probably caused a breakdown in trust in a lot of governments around the world”.
