{"id":1025366,"date":"2026-08-01T07:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025366"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:02:50","slug":"meta-has-no-business-taking-down-pms-post-explanation-not-satisfactory-meitys-krishnan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/01\/meta-has-no-business-taking-down-pms-post-explanation-not-satisfactory-meitys-krishnan\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta has &#8216;no business&#8217; taking down PM&#8217;s post, explanation not satisfactory: MeitY&#8217;s Krishnan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Meta Platforms, which owns the popular social networking sites Facebook and Instagram, has &#8220;no business&#8221; taking down authorised content of India&#8217;s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the company&#8217;s explanation is inadequate, a top government official said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that Meta has any business taking down a post that was duly authorised, and nobody was asking or complaining about it. I think their explanation is not satisfactory enough. They are a large company and supposed to have the most advanced technology,&#8221; Ministry of Electronics &amp; IT (MeitY) Secretary S Krishnan told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Meta Platforms, which owns the popular social networking sites Facebook and Instagram, has &#8220;no business&#8221; taking down authorised content of India&#8217;s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the company&#8217;s explanation is inadequate, a top government official said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that Meta has any business taking down a post that was duly authorised, and nobody was asking or complaining about it. I think their explanation is not satisfactory enough. They are a large company and supposed to have the most advanced technology,&#8221; Ministry of Electronics &amp; IT (MeitY) Secretary S Krishnan told ET.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025366","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=1025366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025367,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025366\/revisions\/1025367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}