India, July 29 -- The Union government has summoned the top global leadership of Meta and Instagram through an email invitation, signalling growing frustration with the company's India policy team over a series of compliance disputes.

The summons follows the brief removal of a Facebook Reel posted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. Beyond the video removal, discussions will cover child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Instagram, WhatsApp's proposed username feature, and broader adherence to India's digital laws.

Ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity) secretary S Krishnan has called the meeting with the Meta top brass. Although the deleted Reel was restored the same day, Meta did not clarify how long the clip ...