Social media company Meta’s global team, which has been summoned by the Centre after it restricted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Facebook post, will be questioned on issues around algorithmic bias and their role in public order.
Official sources told Media that Meta’s global team is expected to be questioned sometime in the middle of next week. Meta will be asked to clarify issues around algorithmic bias, how their algorithm operates, and the company’s role in public order. The team will also appear before a parliamentary panel.
The move assumes significance, as the government earlier this week summoned a top Meta executive after Prime Minister Modi’s recent post addressing India’s youth and promising stringent measures against paper leaks was briefly restricted on Facebook.
While Meta attributed the incident to a technical glitch and apologised, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology found the explanation inadequate.
