New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan on Wednesday apologised to Union Minister of Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw on behalf of the company for the error that led to the restriction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's post last month on Facebook.

"I apologised to the minister on behalf of Meta for the error restricting PM Modi's post," Kaplan said after meeting Vaishnaw along with his team on Wednesday. Facebook is owned by Meta.

There has been heightened scrutiny of Meta's content moderation practices in India.

Meta has accepted the mistake that a lot of illegal content was promoted and paid promotion was carried out for a specific audience, sources said on Wednesday.

The sources said that Meta will b...