India, Aug. 5 -- A senior global executive at Meta met Indian officials on Wednesday and apologised for a video message by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Facebook being taken down for five hours, according to a statement by the company that owns the social media website.

The apology was tendered by Meta's chief global officer Joel Kaplan to Union minister for electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw during a meeting earlier in the day. "I apologised to the minister on behalf of Meta for error restricting PM Modi's post," a statement from Meta cited Kaplan as saying.

HT reached out to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for a comment on Wednesday's discussions but did not get one immediately.

The meeting and the a...