IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw again meets Meta global team:Govt quizzes whether company following law of the land or not

Meta’s global leadership team met Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and senior officials in New Delhi for the second straight day on Thursday, 6 August, 2026. Citing government sources, news agency PTI says that meetings with Meta team will continue for 3-4 days. These meetings follow the Centre’s recent summons to Meta after a Facebook post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefly restricted on the platform. Although the company later restored the post and attributed the incident to a technical glitch, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had termed the explanation ‘inadequate’. Meta apologises for temporary removal of PM Modi’s FB post On Wenesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had apologised for the temporary removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Facebook post, calling it an operational error, according to government sources Zuckerberg had also apologised for the presence of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), deepfake content and operational lapses on the company’s platforms, according to government sources. (This is a developing news)