Meta India’s public policy head issues apology after Mark Zuckerberg’s election comment

Meta’s public policy head for India has apologised a day after a BJP parliamentarian threatened to summon the firm over its CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s inaccurate suggestion that the Narendra Modi government lost the 2024 general election.

In a podcast on January 10, Zuckerberg had said: “2024 was a very big election year around the world and all these countries, India, had elections. The incumbents basically lost every single one. There is some sort of a global phenomenon — whether it was because of inflation or the economic policies to deal with Covid or just how the governments dealt with Covid.”