Mark Zuckerberg: Meta India apologizes for Mark Zuckerberg’s ignorant comments on 2024 elections

Mark Zuckerberg: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other social media companies, recently made controversial comments in a podcast regarding the 2024 elections. He remarked that current governments lost elections in 2024 in countries that did not handle the COVID-19 pandemic properly. He cited America, India and other countries. The Indian government denied these comments.

ignorant comments

Zuckerberg remarked that governments which could not control the pandemic properly during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic lost the elections in 2024. The losers include the governments of America, India and other countries. However, the BJP-led NDA, which was in power in India during the Covid pandemic, won the general elections in 2024. Zuckerberg ignored it.

Central government’s response

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav made a post on Twitter refuting Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s comments. BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who heads the parliamentary committee on communications and information technology, said he will issue summons over Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s statement. He said that the organization should apologize to the Indian Parliament and the people of the country for this mistake.

Apologies to Meta India

However, the company’s Indian arm, Meta India, responded to the comments made by its owner, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg apologized for the comments. “Mark Zuckerberg’s observation that many ruling parties will not win re-election in 2024 applies to many countries. But not for India,” commented Shivnath Thukral, vice president, Meta India. For this he posted on social media. He apologized for this mistake. Thukral said that India is a very important country for American multinational technology groups. Hopefully India will be at the center of the innovative future.