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The parliamentary standing committee on information technology also demanded action against intermediary platforms that carry child sexual abuse material (CASM) and demeaning material against women.

However, according to sources, opposition MPs in the panel said space for dissent in social media is a must and anti-government content should not be considered anti-national.

Removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook video led to the action against Meta

Meta informed the government that a glitch in its automated content filters caused PM Modi's Facebook post removal for a brief while.

According to Downdetector, which tracks outages by aggregating user-submitted problem reports, the complaints peaked around afternoon and eased after a couple of hours.

The move on Friday came less than a week after the parent of Instagram and Facebook rolled out Muse Image, its first image-generation model available through the company's artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI.

The verdict could influence thousands of similar lawsuits against social media companies.