Meta set to receive summons from House panel over election remarks

New Delhi: Social media giant Meta is set to receive a summons from the Parliamentary Standing Committee, chairman of the House panel on Communication and Information Technology Nishikant Dubey said on Tuesday.
In a post on X, the BJP MP accused CEO Mark Zuckerbergof spreading misinformation through his earlier comments on the 2024 Indian general election.
“My committee will call Meta for this wrong information. Wrong information in any democratic country tarnishes the image of the country. That organization will have to apologise to the Indian Parliament and the people here for this mistake,” Dubey wrote in his post.
Notably, during a recent podcast with Joe Rogan, Zuckerberg commented on the global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trust in governments and election outcomes. He stated, “2024 was a very big election year around the world and all these countries, India, had elections.”