{"id":896409,"date":"2025-01-16T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=896409"},"modified":"2025-01-16T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T04:07:07","slug":"meta-indias-public-policy-head-issues-apology-after-mark-zuckerbergs-election-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/16\/meta-indias-public-policy-head-issues-apology-after-mark-zuckerbergs-election-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta India&#8217;s public policy head issues apology after Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s election comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s public policy head for India has apologised a day after a BJP parliamentarian threatened to summon the firm over its CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s inaccurate suggestion that the Narendra Modi government lost the 2024 general election. <\/p>\n<p>In a podcast on January 10, Zuckerberg had said: \u201c2024 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 \u2014 whether it was because of inflation or the economic policies to deal with Covid or just how the governments dealt with Covid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s public policy head for India has apologised a day after a BJP parliamentarian threatened to summon the firm over its CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s inaccurate suggestion that the Narendra Modi government lost the 2024 general election. In a podcast on January 10, Zuckerberg had said: \u201c2024 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 \u2014 whether it was because of inflation or the economic policies to deal with Covid or just how the governments dealt with Covid.\u201d<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896409","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=896409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}