Meta India on Wednesday apologised for CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent remarks that the incumbent government lost power in the 2024 elections. In a post on X, Meta India’s vice president Shivnath Thukral said, “Mark's observation that many incumbent parties were not re-elected in 2024 elections holds true for several countries, but not India."
Thukral further added, "We would like to apologise for this inadvertent error. India remains an incredibly important country for Meta and we look forward to being at the heart of its innovative future," while tagging electronics and IT and information & broadcasting minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
The reaction from Thukral came after Vaishnaw stated that Zuckerberg's claim that most incumbent governments, including India in the 2024 elections, lost post-Covid was factually incorrect. Vaishnaw emphasized that as the world's largest democracy, India conducted the 2024 elections with over 640 million voters and the people of India reaffirmed their trust in the NDA led by PM Narendra Modi's leadership.
The minister also expressed disappointment in seeing misinformation from Zuckerberg himself. BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who heads the Parliament's Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology, announced that the panel would summon Meta following its chairman's comments that India's ruling dispensation lost the Lok Sabha election last year.
