Amidst the NEET paper leak controversy, were any Facebook posts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi suddenly blocked in India? Did the social media platform Facebook stop the important video of PM Modi for a few hours inside India, which was being discussed everywhere?
Yes, a huge and shocking revelation has come to light regarding Facebook, which is owned by Meta, one of the world’s largest social media platforms. Facebook had temporarily blocked PM Modi’s first selfie video in India, in which he addressed the country’s GenZ generation. However, within a few hours Facebook completely restored the video. But all this happened due to a technical glitch, for which Meta has now officially accepted its mistake and apologized.
Meta’s new problem and ‘legal request’ message
After this entire incident came to light, social media giant Meta is deeply embroiled in a new and bigger controversy. This Genji video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi could not be seen at all on Facebook in India for some time. The main reason for this is said to be a technical glitch. Actually, when users wanted to watch that Genji video of PM Modi, a strange message was visible on it. It was clearly written on it that this media is not available in your area due to ‘legal request’. However, after a few hours Meta restarted the access to that video, but after this big mistake, now questions are being raised continuously on Meta.
BJP took on Meta
After this came to light, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has asked tough questions from Meta. Maharashtra BJP spokesperson and party’s IT and social media in-charge Preeti Gandhi openly criticized the company on social media. He wrote in his post that the Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy had shared his first selfie video to connect with the youth of the country, but Facebook banned it inside India. He also asked who gave Meta the right to decide what the people of India will see and what not?
Was any post really removed from Facebook?
However, sources related to this matter have completely rejected and termed all such claims as false. Sources say that the claim that Facebook had deliberately blocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s post related to the government’s strict action against the paper leak is absolutely false. In fact, Facebook never blocked this post and the post is still completely live on the platform and available to all users. According to sources, this was not a case of any kind of ban or removal of posts, but was only the result of a technical glitch, due to which this technical problem was visible for some time.
Meta apologized, officials may be summoned
Sources also say that Meta has apologized to the government in this entire matter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s video being removed or blocked from Facebook. Meta itself has admitted that the video appearing this way was the result of a technical glitch on its part. However, the Indian Government has taken this entire matter very seriously. Senior officials of Meta may also be summoned soon to answer in this matter.
After all, what was the whole video controversy and what was in it?
According to the reports, when the ‘See Why’ option present on the video was viewed at around 1:25 am on Tuesday, it was revealed that this video content of PM Modi has been banned in India under some legal request. However, Meta’s notice made no explicit mention of any specific legal provision or any government authority making the request. This blocking controversy comes at a sensitive time when Meta is already responding to the Government of India in a very serious matter.
It is noteworthy that in the video of PM Modi which was stopped for some time, Prime Minister Modi had assured the country that more strict steps will be taken against the paper leak and it will be announced in the next cabinet meeting. When this video was shown on Facebook, there was no indication with it as to which law or which agency it was blocked by, only that it was written that this video is not available due to legal request. But now milk has turned into water and it has become clear that all this happened only because of a technical glitch.
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