Vaishnaw opted for Meta’s Fb platform to name out Zuckerberg for spreading ‘misinformation’.
Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw hit again at Fb founder Mark Zuckerberg on Monday for making a “factually incorrect” assertion that the incumbent authorities in India misplaced the election in 2024 on account of its dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms, triggered a row by claiming in a podcast interview that the Indian authorities misplaced the election in 2024 on account of its weak COVID-19 response. Vaishnaw opted for Meta’s Fb platform to name out Zuckerberg for spreading “misinformation”. “It’s disappointing to see misinformation from Mr Zuckerberg himself. Let’s uphold information and credibility,” the Union info and broadcasting minister stated, tagging Meta on X and different social media platforms.
“From free meals for 800 million, 2.2 billion free vaccines, and support to nations worldwide throughout COVID, to main India because the fastest-growing main economic system, PM Modi’s decisive Third-term victory is a testomony to good governance and public belief,” he stated. “Mr Zuckerberg’s declare that the majority incumbent governments, together with India within the 2024 elections, misplaced post-COVID is factually incorrect,” the minister stated.
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Showing on the Joe Rogan podcast, Zuckerberg stated 2024 was the massive election yr around the globe and in plenty of international locations like India, the incumbents misplaced the polls. “There may be some kind of world phenomena, whether or not it was inflation due to the financial insurance policies to take care of Covid or simply how the governments handled Covid, appears to have this impact that’s world, not simply the US, however like a really broad lower in belief, not less than within the set incumbents and perhaps, in kind of these democratic establishments general,” the Fb founder stated.
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