Government to Hold Policy and Technical Discussions with Meta Within a Week Over Removal of PM's July 23 Post

PTI, July 30, 2026, New Delhi: The Union government will hold discussions with social media major Meta on policy and technical matters within a week over several concerns, including the removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook post, a senior government official said on Thursday.

The government has summoned Meta's public policy head after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook post, on July 23, addressing India's youth and promising stringent measures against exam paper leaks, was briefly restricted by the US-headquartered social media giant.

While speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the CII conference on semiconductors, Electronics and IT Secretary S. Krishnan said that the government has asked Meta to come in at the highest level and explain the issue that led to the glitch.

"They will be coming and explaining what the situation is. We want to have both a policy-level and a technical understanding of the issues, and an adaptation to the kinds of concerns India has in this regard. There are several issues we have, which we will raise with them when they come. I think, within the next week, they will be coming," he said.

Meta, the owner of social media platform Facebook, is learnt to have written to the government outlining the specifics of enhanced and rigorous safeguards it has now implemented for content posted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other prominent accounts.

While the social media giant attributed the incident to a technical glitch and apologised, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) found the explanation "inadequate".

Meta has now informed the ministry that posts by the Prime Minister and select prominent accounts will be subject to additional oversight on the platform, with multiple levels of checks involving senior company officials, sources said.

Any decision will undergo rigorous checks and require review by at least two senior officials of the company, sources said, citing the social media firm's latest communication to the ministry.