India To Grill Meta Global Team On Aug 5-6 Over PM Modi Facebook Post Takedown, Child Abuse Content
The upcoming meeting is significant as the government has summoned Meta's top global executives after PM Modi's recent Facebook post was restricted on the platform.
Published : August 4, 2026 at 1:39 PM IST
New Delhi: The government will raise a number of issues, including lapses in tackling CSEAM as well as wrongful action on Prime Minister's facebook post, during the upcoming meeting with Meta's global team, IT Secretary S Krishnan said on Tuesday. Meta's global team will be in India on August 5 and 6, Krishnan said.
The upcoming meeting is significant as the government has summoned Meta's top global executives after PM Modi's recent Facebook post addressing India's youth and promising stringent action against paper leaks was briefly restricted on the platform.
Meta has also been under regulatory scrutiny over Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material (CSEAM) in paid advertisements on Instagram, and the government had earlier slapped a notice on Meta over the issue.
"There are a range of issues...the CSEAM issue was raised, so what measures have been taken regarding that, and synthetically generated information...to what extent that is being looked at. Then, of course, for prominent personalities, when they have verified accounts, if content has to be taken down, there have to be safeguards...all of these will be the issues," Krishnan told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of an independent multimodal AI evaluation platform by AI4Bharat at IIT Madras and Josh Talks AI.
AI4Bharat and Josh Talks AI launched Voice of India, India's first independent multimodal artificial intelligence evaluation platform dedicated to assessing AI systems under real-world Indian conditions.
"We would like to understand from them (Meta) as to why some of these things have not been working the way they are supposed to work, and what are the challenges," Krishnan added. As one of the leading technology companies in the world, Meta should have the technology to address such issues effectively, he said.
Meta had said on July 28 that PM Modi's Facebook video on action against examination paper leaks was removed due to a technical error and was restored.
"The content was removed in error and has since been restored," a Meta spokesperson had said in a statement.
The video, released on July 23, marked Prime Minister Modi's remarks to Gen Z during the protest against NEET-UG paper leak.
In the video, the Prime Minister assured students that the government would take stronger action against examination paper leaks, saying stricter legal provisions would be brought before the Union Cabinet.
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