By scaling back its independent fact-checking, Meta has triggered alarm among civil society groups in Asia where misinformation's consequences have proven deadly.

Mark Zuckerberg's claim about India's 2024 elections triggers backlash, with Meta issuing an apology and Indian leaders slamming the misinformation.

Amid the likelihood of a Parliamentary committee issuing a summons to Meta for a "factually incorrect" statement

India Squad Announcement For Champions Trophy 2025 Highlights: Rohit Sharma and Ajit Agarkar announced India's squad for the Champions Trophy, leaving out two big names.

Meta India on Wednesday apologised for CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s remarks that the incumbent government in India lost power in the 2024 elections due to its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and termed it an “inadvertent error”.

Parliamentary IT Standing Committee Chairman Nishikant Dubey has said he’d summon Meta and make it apologise for its CEO Mark Zuckerburg’s recent comment on 2024 Indian elections

At the time, India was TikTok’s biggest foreign market outside of China, with 200 million users. (For comparison, the U.S. currently has over 170 million TikTok users.) Following military clashes along the disputed border between India and China,

Meta may have to "roll back or pause" some features in India due to an antitrust directive which banned its WhatsApp messaging service from sharing user data with Meta for advertising purposes, according to a court filing by the U.

Meta has raised concerns that a recent antitrust ruling by the Competition Commission of India, which bans WhatsApp from sharing user data with the pa

India's creaking rail network has seen a string of disasters over the years but dramatic footage of a train pile-up was not filmed in the country's southern Chennai megacity in December 2024, contrary to rumours on Facebook and Instagram.

When India banned TikTok in June 2020, Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube gained big time. Will it be the same with the US suspension?

Meta challenges Indian antitrust ruling banning WhatsApp data-sharing with Meta for personalized ads, facing $24.5M fine and 5-year ban.