Meta Platforms' Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan apologised to India's information technology minister for briefly restricting a post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July, he said in a statement on Wednesday.
"I apologised to the minister on behalf of Meta for the error restricting PM Modi's post," Kaplan said.
Last month, India's information and technology ministry summoned Meta executives after Facebook briefly restricted a post by Modi. Meta said the post had been blocked inadvertently because of an operational error.
Police in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad also registered a case against Meta India head Arun Srinivas over videos posted on Facebook that allegedly depicted Modi in an "abusive manner", Reuters reported last week, citing a senior police officer.
The videos spread as Modi contended with the biggest wave of youth-led protests India has seen in more than a decade. The protests were over leaked papers in national examinations that led to the resignation of his education minister.
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