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 tempor

3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jul 30, 2026 04:55 PM IST PM Modi's July 23 Instagram post, later shared on Facebook, marked his first direct selfie video aimed at engaging with the youth and underscoring the government's commitment to crack down on exam paper leaks amid students' protests organised by the Cockroach Janta

Outlining the enhanced safeguards for PM Modi's posts, Meta has said that prominent accounts to get additional oversight. Going forward, only senior Meta officials will vet such posts, sources said.

Meta assured the government of enhanced oversight for Prime Minister Modi's posts. This assurance followed the brief removal of his video addressing the NEET paper leak issue. The company admitted the video's temporary removal was due to an unintended error. Prime Minister Modi had discussed stricter measures against p

The content was removed in error and has since been restored, says the U.S. tech giant