Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Union Minister, hit back at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for his recent misinformation about India’s ruling party’s electoral positions. The minister also frowned at the billionaire for the spread of the misinformation.
According to the results in the 2024 general election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed the government for the third term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But in an interview with podcaster, Joe Rogan Zuckerberg said that incumbents in all countries including India lose elections in 2024.
“2024 was election year in most parts of the globe. All these countries, like India, had elections. It’s amazing 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 — that seems to have had this global effect. It was a broad decrease in trust in incumbents and maybe in these sorts of democratic institutions overall,” Zuckerberg said.
Stung by these comments, Union Minister Vaishnaw explained that the Indian voter had once again endorsed the Modi led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
For the 2024 elections, India, the largest democracy of the world, had more than 640 million voters. The people of India once again repose their faith in the NDA and its leader PM Narendra Modi. Mr. He said that Zuckerberg’s assertion that most incumbent governments including India in 2024 lost post COVID is entirely misleading and unproven.
Achievements of the Modi Government
Vaishnaw praised Modi government efforts during the pandemic, namely providing free food grains to over 800 million people, providing over 2.2 billion free vaccines and extending help to other countries. He said that all these endeavours helped India become the fastest-growing large economy today and paved way for Modi’s emphatic third term.
The pandemic and its after-effects have been handled well under the leadership of PM Modi and therefore good governance has got the trust of the people. I never expected such headlines from Mr. Zuckerberg himself to be filled with such misinformation. Finally on X, Vaishnaw told @Meta, “let’s stick to facts and credibility”.
Meta Disbands Fact-Checking Unit
The controversy emerged as Meta announced the dismantling of its third-party fact-checking program in the United States and replaced it with a model called “Community Notes,” which has gained popularity with X. This course has attracted a lot of negative backlash, starting with the current president of the United States, Joe Biden, who referred to the action as shameful.
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