The Centre has summoned Meta’s global leadership, including the company’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan, for a meeting next week as it steps up scrutiny of the social media giant over issues ranging from algorithmic bias and public order to child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Officials familiar with the matter said the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has conveyed its concerns to the company over posts that could affect public order, content that fails to meet even the platform’s own community standards, and the handling of CSAM. Officials said that the presence of such content could have implications for the company’s safe harbour protections under Indian law.