Meta India Apologizes for Mark Zuckerberg’s Comment on 2024 Elections: ‘India Remains Incredibly Important’

Meta India Apologizes for Mark Zuckerberg’s Comment on 2024 Elections: Apologising for Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta India, stated that the incumbent government in India lost the elections held in 2024 because of the Covid 19 related issue.

“Mark's observation that many incumbent parties were not re-elected in 2024 elections holds true for several countries, BUT not India,” This was revealed by Shivnath Thukral, Meta India’s VP, in a post on X. “We would like to apologise for this inadvertent error.”

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It should be noted that the Vice President expressed concerns of being very dependent on the country in view of a USA-based conglomerate of multinational companies specializing in technology. “We look forward to being at the heart of its innovative future,” he added.

This came in the wake of a statement made by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who is the Chairman of the Department of Communications and Information. According to him, he had ordered his committee to summon a Meta representative that afternoon itself over the statement made by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

“My committee will summon Meta for this misinformation. Incorrect information tarnishes the image of any democratic country,” Dubey wrote on X.

“The organization will have to apologise to the Indian Parliament and the people of this country for this mistake,” he added.

This was only one of a few statements made by a public figure questioning Mark Zuckerberg's stand, as in a recent example, Ashwini Vaishnaw, who also ranks as a Union ministry, liked the Facebook cofounder but did not accept that one statement he made-that the government lost credibility.

"As the world's largest democracy, India conducted the 2024 elections with over 640 million voters. In those elections, the people of India once again placed their faith in the NDA, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The reality is that Mr. Zuckerberg's statement about most incumbent governments, including India in the 2024 elections, losing because of COVID-19 is quite incorrect," Vaishnaw said.

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What Zuckerberg said

After a podcast, which is part of a present of interviews conducted by the entrepreneur after the end of a third-party fact-checking system in the U.S. and much more, he continued to say there were a lot of activities around this time that made people lose faith in governmental information after a certain health crisis in 2024 that made incumbent governments go to elections and lost them.

“It’s not just the US. I think a lot of the people in the US focus on this as a kind of an American phenomenon, but I kind of think that the reaction to Covid probably caused a breakdown in trust in a lot of governments around the world. I mean 2024 was a big election year around the world and all these countries, India, just like a ton of countries that had elections and the incumbents basically lost every single one," he said.

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