India, Aug. 4 -- The chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology, Nishikant Dubey, on Monday said Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg should apologise for the temporary removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook reel, warning that the company could otherwise lose the "safe harbour" protection available to intermediaries under Section 79 of the Information Technology (IT) Act.

The remarks came during a meeting attended by senior officials from Meta, Google, YouTube, X and Snapchat, along with representatives of the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) and the ministry of home affairs (MHA). The meeting followed Meta's brief removal of Modi's Facebook reel, pr...