{"id":1019114,"date":"2026-07-06T08:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019114"},"modified":"2026-07-06T08:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:22:04","slug":"govt-issues-notice-to-meta-orders-removal-of-instagram-ads-promoting-child-sex-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/06\/govt-issues-notice-to-meta-orders-removal-of-instagram-ads-promoting-child-sex-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt issues notice to Meta, orders removal of Instagram ads promoting child sex abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government has issued a stern notice to Meta over the use of child sexual abuse material in advertisements. The tech giant has been ordered to disable all such content and provide a detailed explanation within seven days. The missive came less than a day after the Centre took cognisance of the allegations and decided to summon Meta. The I-T Ministry also issued a notice to Meta over the proposed WhatsApp username feature earlier this week \u2014 signalling a widening regulatory focus on the company\u2019s products in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government has issued a stern notice to Meta over the use of child sexual abuse material in advertisements. The tech giant has been ordered to disable all such content and provide a detailed explanation within seven days. The missive came less than a day after the Centre took cognisance of the allegations and decided to summon Meta. The I-T Ministry also issued a notice to Meta over the proposed WhatsApp username feature earlier this week \u2014 signalling a widening regulatory focus on the company\u2019s products in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019118,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019114\/revisions\/1019118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}