Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister

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Meta India head named in police case over Facebook videos targeting Modi  Reuters

Meta India head named in case over Facebook videos targeting PM Modi  Dawn

FILE PHOTO: People are seen behind a logo of Meta Platforms, during a conference in Mumbai, India, September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo 31 Jul 2026 03:30PM NEW DELHI, July 31 : Indian police have registered a case against the head of Meta India in Hyderabad city for user posts on its Facebook plat

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.

3 min readJul 29, 2026 11:00 PM IST PM Modi's Instagram post of July 23, 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 paper leaks amid students' protests, was restricted briefly by Meta on Facebook. (Photo:

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

For more than a decade, India’s leader Narendra Modi has seemed politically unassailable, presiding over a government that has outmaneuvered opponents, dominated public discourse and squeezed the space for dissent in the world’s biggest democracy. But last weekend, an online-fueled and youth-led protest movement just a