Overview
- Mark Zuckerberg stated on a podcast that incumbent governments, including India’s, lost the 2024 elections due to global factors like COVID-19 policies and inflation.
- Indian Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw fact-checked Zuckerberg, asserting that the BJP-led NDA secured a third term under Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2024 elections.
- Nishikant Dubey, BJP MP and chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Communication and Information Technology, announced plans to summon Meta over the misinformation.
- Dubey and Vaishnaw criticized Zuckerberg’s remarks as damaging to India’s democratic image and demanded an apology from Meta to the Indian Parliament and public.
- The 2024 Indian general election saw over 640 million voters participate, with the NDA retaining power through a coalition despite some setbacks for the BJP.