Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to India. Joel Kaplan, Meta's chief global affairs officer, carried the message into meetings with IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and IT secretary S Krishnan in Delhi on 5 August 2026, and officials briefed afterwards said the apology covered child sexual abuse material, deepfake content, errors in operating the platform, and money paid to boost certain kinds of content.Those accounts come from officials the news agencies declined to name. Meta's on-record words in the whole episode still amount to a single sentence issued in July: the content was removed in error and has since been restored.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
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