Meta global team summoned on August 5-6, says IT Secretary

The government on Tuesday said it will raise a number of issues, including lapses in tackling of CSAM as well as wrongful action on prominent account during the upcoming meeting with Meta's global team.Govt summons Meta global team in India on August 5-6, says IT Secretary S Krishnan. (REUTERS)IT Secretary S Krishnan said that a company at the forefront of technology should have been able to make its systems work as they are supposed to.Meta's global team will be in India on August 5 and 6, Krishnan added.What led to the summoning?This comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Facebook reel addressing India's youth and promising stringent action against paper leaks, was briefly restricted on the platform. The ministry further said that Meta has been under regulatory scrutiny over Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material (CSEAM) in paid advertisements on Instagram. The government had earlier slapped a notice on Meta over the issue, news agency PTI reported. "There are a range of issues...the CSAM issue was raised, so what measures have been taken regarding that, and synthetically generated information ... to what extent that is being looked at. Then, of course, for prominent personalities, when they have verified accounts, if content has to be taken down, there have to be safeguards...all of these will be the issues," Krishnan told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of an independent multimodal AI evaluation platform by AI4Bharat at IIT Madras and Josh Talks AI."We would like to understand from them (Meta) as to why some of these things have not been working the way they are supposed to work, and what are the challenges," Krishnan added.