New Delhi
Meta has apologized to India after a controversial statement related to the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg had given a public statement on the Lok Sabha elections 2024, which sparked a wave of disagreement and resentment among many Indians and political experts. As controversy grew over this statement, Meta admitted it was a mistake and decided to apologize to India.
Meta apologized
Mark Zuckerberg recently commented on India’s Lok Sabha elections 2024 during an interview. His statement was such that it gave the impression that his statement might try to influence the electoral environment of India. The statement raised concerns that efforts could be made to spread misinformation or increase political polarization on social media platforms. Following Zuckerberg’s statement, Meta immediately released an official statement calling the statement an unthinkable mistake. Meta said that its CEO never intended to interfere in India’s elections and apologized to India for his statement. Meta also clarified that their platforms always aim to provide fairness, accuracy and balanced information.
This claim of Mark Zuckerberg is wrong. NDA has won again in the elections held in India in 2024. After this statement of Mark, many ministers criticized him. IT and Communication Minister Ashwini Vaishnav also replied to him on social media.
Ashwini Vaishnav had also posted
He had written that 64 crore people took part in the elections held in 2024 in India, the world’s largest democracy. The people of India showed confidence in the NDA government working under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He had written, ‘Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that most of the ruling governments of the world, including India, have lost the elections held after Covid is wrong.’ Ashwini Vaishnav had tagged Meta on X in her post. He had described this incident of Mark Zuckerberg giving wrong information as very unfortunate.
What was Mark Zuckerberg’s statement?
Zuckerberg had claimed in his statement that after Covid-19, the existing governments of many countries including India fell in the elections held in 2024. In a podcast on January 10, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, while commenting on the 2024 elections, It was said that after the Covid pandemic, people’s trust in the current governments reduced. Giving an example, he also mentioned India. Zuckerberg said, “2024 was a big election year all over the world. Elections were held in many countries, including India, and almost everywhere the existing governments were defeated. “People’s trust in governments has decreased due to issues like Covid, inflation and economic crisis.”
