New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- A high-level delegation from Meta, led by its Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan, met with the Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), S Krishnan, in the national capital on Wednesday.

The meeting lasted around 45 minutes, during which Meta officials explained the reasons behind the erroneous takedown of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's video. The officials are also scheduled to meet IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw later in the day.

The meeting comes after the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology earlier today demanded an "unqualified apology" from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the removal of a video featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi...