Why the Centre Has Summoned Meta's Global Team to India
- Aug 4
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India Summons Meta: The Centre will question Meta over child sexual abuse material, AI-generated content and moderation lapses during a crucial meeting in India.
By Sakshi Singh
New Delhi, August 4: The Centre will raise concerns over child sexual abuse material (CSAM), wrongful restrictions on verified accounts, and AI-generated content during its meeting with Meta's global team on August 5 and 6 in India. The government will seek answers over recent content moderation lapses and press the tech giant to strengthen safeguards across its platforms, IT Secretary S. Krishnan said on Tuesday.
The upcoming meeting is significant as the government has summoned Meta's top global executives after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent Facebook post addressing India's youth and promising stringent action against paper leaks was briefly restricted on the platform.
Meta has also come under regulatory scrutiny over Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material (CSEAM) in paid advertisements on Instagram. The government had earlier issued a notice to Meta over the issue.
"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.
"We would like to understand from them (Meta) why some of these things have not been working the way they are supposed to work, and what the challenges are," Krishnan added.
He said that, as one of the world's leading technology companies, Meta should have the technology to address such issues effectively.
(With PTI Inputs)
