Centre summons Meta's global team on August 5-6 to raise CSAM, AI concerns
PM Modi Facebook post row

NEW DELHI: The Centre will raise a range of concerns with Meta’s global team during its meeting in India on August 5 and 6, including the platform’s handling of Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material (CSEAM), the temporary restriction of prominent verified accounts, and the spread of AI-generated content, IT Secretary S Krishnan said on Tuesday.Meta has been under regulatory scrutiny over Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material (CSEAM) in paid advertisements on Instagram, and the government had earlier issued a notice to the company over the issue.The move comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Facebook post addressing students’ concerns over paper leaks was removed briefly.“There are a range of issues… the CSAM issue was raised, so what measures have been taken regarding that, and synthetically generated information … to what extent that is being looked at. Then, of course, for prominent personalities, when they have verified accounts, if content has to be taken down, there have to be safeguards… all of these will be the issues,” Krishnan told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of an independent multimodal AI evaluation platform by AI4Bharat at IIT Madras and Josh Talks AI.

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