{"id":1026651,"date":"2026-08-06T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026651"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:22:36","slug":"centre-grills-meta-firms-global-team-apologises-for-temporary-removal-of-pms-facebook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/centre-grills-meta-firms-global-team-apologises-for-temporary-removal-of-pms-facebook-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre grills Meta; firm&#8217;s global team apologises for temporary removal of PM&#8217;s Facebook post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta on Wednesday apologised for the temporary removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s Facebook post, while also acknowledging shortcomings in tackling child sexual abuse material, deepfakes and illegal content during a meeting with Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday, government sources said. <\/p>\n<p>While Meta&#8217;s global affairs chief Joel Kaplan, who travelled from the US for meetings with Indian officials, said in a written statement that he &#8220;apologised to the minister on behalf of Meta for the error restricting PM Modi&#8217;s post&#8221;, government sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, claimed the apology came from company chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta on Wednesday apologised for the temporary removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s Facebook post, while also acknowledging shortcomings in tackling child sexual abuse material, deepfakes and illegal content during a meeting with Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday, government sources said. While Meta&#8217;s global affairs chief Joel Kaplan, who travelled from the US for meetings with Indian officials, said in a written statement that he &#8220;apologised to the minister on behalf of Meta for the error restricting PM Modi&#8217;s post&#8221;, government sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, claimed the apology came from company chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026651","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=1026651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026664,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026651\/revisions\/1026664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}