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Police FIR names Meta India director over AI Modi videos
Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police have filed an FIR against Meta India director Arun Srinivas and unnamed social media users for circulating AI-generated videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Facebook and Instagram.…
The Story in Brief
Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police have filed an FIR against Meta India director Arun Srinivas and unnamed social media users for circulating AI-generated videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Facebook and Instagram. Investigators are analysing the origin of the manipulated clips and whether they violated the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and IT Act. Meta has not commented on the FIR. Separately, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology held a third round of talks with Meta’s technical team on Friday, focusing on platform algorithms and content moderation safeguards. The discussions follow Meta’s temporary restriction of a Modi Facebook post on July 28, which the company blamed on an automated error.
The Indian Opinion
This story is being framed as yet another Big Tech vs Government showdown. But the core question is more straightforward: did Meta’s systems fail to spot fake content of the Prime Minister, or did they deliberately allow it? The police FIR names a local director, not a global executive, which suggests the investigation is procedural rather than political. The real test is whether the Hyderabad police publish a technical audit of how the videos bypassed moderation. Until then, both the company’s ‘technical glitch’ defence and the government’s suspicion of bad faith remain unproven assertions.
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Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
