The NCPCR had earlier sought an explanation from Meta in the matter. In response, the company submitted its reply a week later.
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After examining Meta’s response, the commission has now decided to initiate an inquiry to determine the facts of the matter.
Meta’s global team in India tomorrow
The government said it will raise a number of issues, including lapses in tackling of CSAM (Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material), as well as wrongful action on prominent account during the upcoming meeting with Meta’s global team.
IT Secretary S Krishnan said that a company at the forefront of technology should have been able to make its systems work as they are supposed to.
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Meta’s global team will be in India on August 5 and 6, Krishnan added.
It was not immediately clear who will be part of the team that will travel to India. There have been demands by the ruling party BJP’s leaders for a personal apology by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
“There are a range of issues…the CSAM issue was raised, so what measures have been taken regarding that, and synthetically generated information … to what extent that is being looked at. Then, of course, for prominent personalities, when they have verified accounts, if content has to be taken down, there have to be safeguards…all of these will be the issues,” Krishnan told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of an independent multimodal AI evaluation platform by AI4Bharat at IIT Madras and Josh Talks AI.
“Meta’s mindset is to destabilise the country. PM Modi’s video was taken down from 12.30 am to 5 am. This is a very serious issue. Our committee has said two things — the apology must come from Mark Zuckerberg or else we will take back the safe harbour given to Meta under Section 79,” Dubey told reporters.
(With inputs from agencies)
