'Apologise To Indians': Parliamentary Panel To Summon Meta Over Zuckerberg's Poll Loss Remark
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India’s Parliamentary Committee is set to summon officials from the social media platform ‘Meta’, days after CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed that most incumbent governments, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), had lost power post the Covid-19 pandemic.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who is also the chairperson of the committee on communications and information technology, said that he would send summons to Meta and would call upon the platform to apologise to India’s Parliament.
“My committee will call Meta for this wrong information," Dubey wrote in a post on X.
“Wrong information in any democratic country tarnishes the image of the country. That organization will have to apologize to the Indian Parliament and the people here for this mistake," the MP added.
“We have decided that we will summon the people of Meta. The CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg has given a statement and shown that after Covid-19, an atmosphere has been created against the government where he has also mentioned India," Dubey later said.
“This statement by Mark Zuckerberg is alarming and shows that he is interfering in the democracy of the country and is misleading the world by giving wrong information that BJP-NDA has lost," he added.
“We have decided that we will summon the people of Meta. They will have to apologise or else action will be taken by our committee.
We will speak to the members of the committee and between January 20 to January 24, we will ask them to be present," the BJP MP said.
Zuckerberg made the remark while he was on an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
“A lot of people in the United States focus on this as an American phenomenon, but I kind of think that the reaction to Covid probably caused a breakdown and trust in a lot of governments around the world, because 2024 was a big election year around the world.
And you know there are all these countries, India, just like a ton of countries, that had elections and the incumbents, basically lost every single one of them." Zuckerberg said on the podcast.
