India, Aug. 6 -- The Union government will continue discussions with Meta's technical team over the next three to four days on the company's content moderation policies, algorithms, and compliance mechanisms, after the temporary takedown of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook reel raised concerns within the government, a senior official from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) said.

This comes after Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan met and apologised to Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday for the post made by Modi becoming inaccessible on the platform for around five hours on July 28.

"I apologised to the minister on behalf of Meta for error restricting PM Modi's post," a statement ...