India summons Meta’s global executives after PM Modi’s video briefly blocked

3 min readUpdated: Jul 28, 2026 12:54 PM IST In the video, PM Modi acknowledged the paper leak issue as "serious".The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has summoned Meta’s global head of public policy after a video posted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefly withheld by Facebook in India, sources said. The video in question was uploaded by Modi Thursday night, at the height of the then ongoing students’ protest, in which he said that the Union Cabinet would work on a tough new law for stricter penalties for those involved in paper leaks.Meta said that the video was removed in error and has since been restored. Queries sent to the IT Ministry remained unanswered until publication. To be sure, after the students’ protest ended last week, following the resignation of Dharmendra Pr