New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg reportedly apologised for the temporary removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook post as well as for failures ranging from child sexual abuse content to deepfakes and boosting certain content on being paid "a lot of money," government sources said on Wednesday, August 5, after executives of the US tech giant met Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

While Meta's global affairs head Joel Kaplan, who flew in from the US for meetings with Indian officials, in a written statement said he "apologised to the minister on behalf of Meta for the error restricting PM Modi's post", government sources, who refused to be identified, said the apology came from company chief executive Mark Zuckerberg...