{"id":1026574,"date":"2026-08-06T08:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026574"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:14:29","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-apologises-to-indian-govt-over-child-sexual-abuse-material-and-deepfake-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/mark-zuckerberg-apologises-to-indian-govt-over-child-sexual-abuse-material-and-deepfake-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg apologises to Indian govt over child sexual abuse material and deepfake content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platform&#8217;s \u200bChief Executive \u200cOfficer \u2060Mark Zuckerberg \u2060has apologised \u200bto \u200bthe Indian \u200bgovernment \u2060over \u200cchild \u200bsexual \u200babuse material on \u2060Meta platforms \u200band operational \u200berrors. <\/p>\n<p>As per government sources, Zuckerberg sent his apologies for &#8220;Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material (CASM), deepfake content and errors in operating the platform.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The government made it clear to Meta that the company cannot claim protection under the &#8220;intermediary&#8221; definition, since its algorithms determine which users receive specific content. As a result, the safe harbour provisions under the IT Act do not apply to the platform, officials told the platform&#8217;s executives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platform&#8217;s \u200bChief Executive \u200cOfficer \u2060Mark Zuckerberg \u2060has apologised \u200bto \u200bthe Indian \u200bgovernment \u2060over \u200cchild \u200bsexual \u200babuse material on \u2060Meta platforms \u200band operational \u200berrors. As per government sources, Zuckerberg sent his apologies for &#8220;Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material (CASM), deepfake content and errors in operating the platform.&#8221; The government made it clear to Meta that the company cannot claim protection under the &#8220;intermediary&#8221; definition, since its algorithms determine which users receive specific content. As a result, the safe harbour provisions under the IT Act do not apply to the platform, officials told the platform&#8217;s executives.<\/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-1026574","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\/1026574","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=1026574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026595,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026574\/revisions\/1026595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}