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India summons Meta executives over briefly restricted Modi Facebook post

MUMBAI, July 30 - India has summoned executives from U.S. tech giant Meta, a senior official said on Thursday, after its Facebook platform briefly restricted a post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week. • A video message by Modi posted on Meta's Instagram platform and later shared on Facebook was restricted temporarily on the latter.• A Meta spokesperson said at the time that the post had been blocked inadvertently.• "We have asked Meta to come in at the highest level and explain what is happening," S. Krishnan, secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, said on Thursday. • He did not say who, specifically, had been requested to appear.• Meta told Indian authorities it established new protocols relating to accounts of prominent persons to prevent such a situa
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