Parliamentary Committee To Summon Meta Over Mark Zuckerberg's Lok Sabha Elections Remark

Nishikant Dubey, the BJP MP and Chairman of Parliamentary Committee on Communication and Information Technology said on Tuesday (January 14) that the committee will summon Meta over its CEO Mark Zuckerberg's statement that BJP lost 2024 Lok Sabha election. In his post on X (formerly Twitter), made in Hindi, Dubey said Meta will have to apologise as spreading misinformation about a democracy tarnishes its image.

Zuckerberg sparked controversy just days ago when he said on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast that NDA government, led by BJP, lost Lok Sabha elections held in 2024.

What Was Zuckerberg's Actual Statement on the podcast?

This is what he said on the podcast.

“2024 was a big election year around the world and all these countries, India, had elections. The incumbents basically lost every single one. There is some sort of a global phenomenon – whether it was because of inflation or the economic policies to deal with covid or just how the governments dealt with covid. It seems to have had this effect that's global," said Zuckerberg as he interacted with Joe Rogan on his podcast episode.

Ashwini Vaishnaw, India's Information and Broadcasting Minister, took to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) and expressed his displeasure about Zuckerberg's statement.

Saying that people of India 'reaffirmed their trust in NDA led by PM Narendra Modi Ji’s leadership,' he added that Zuckerberg's comment was 'factually incorrect'

Vaishnaw added that it was 'disappointing to see misinformation from Mr. Zuckerberg himself'.

There was no immediate reaction from Zuckerberg on either of these posts on X.