Meta India Apologises For Mark Zuckerberg's 'Inadvertent Error' After BJP MP Issues Warning

Following Mark Zuckerberg's statement in a podcast that various governments, including India's, suffered electoral defeats after the Covid-19 pandemic, Meta issued an apology for these remarks, referring to them as an "inadvertent error".

In a post on X, Meta India’s vice president of public policy Shivnath Thukral said, 'Dear Honourable Minister @AshwiniVaishnaw, Mark’s observation that many incumbent parties were not re-elected in 2024 elections holds true for several countries, BUT not India. We would like to apologise for this inadvertent error. India remains an incredibly important country for @Meta and we look forward to being at the heart of its innovative future."

The statement, made in a podcast claimed that incumbent governments, including India’s, were voted out of power in elections around the world post-Covid-19, faced widespread backlash and was labelled as “factually incorrect” by Indian officials.

“There is some sort of global phenomena, whether it was inflation because of the economic policies to deal with Covid or just how the governments dealt with Covid, seems to have this effect that is global, not just the US, but like a very broad decrease in trust, at least in the set incumbents and maybe, in sort of these democratic institutions overall,” the Facebook founder said.