Mint Quick Edit | Meta’s meta-fiction shouldn’t bother us
Live MintSocial media ushered in the world of “post-truth" as we know it, so it’ll be no small irony if the chief of Meta, which dominates it, is summoned by India’s parliamentary committee on communications and IT for “misinformation." On Tuesday, the Indian panel’s head used X, a microblog platform, to say it would call Mark Zuckerberg and get Meta to apologize for his inclusion of India in a podcast reference to countries where incumbents lost elections last year because covid may have reduced public trust in government information. Speaking in the context of why Meta was reversing key aspects of its fact-check policy, Zuckerberg overlooked the fact that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party had merely lost its majority in Parliament, not power. It hasn’t gone unnoticed that Meta’s shift on matters like diversity and fact-checking has been in response to the US presidential election winner’s criticism of its ways.
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