Morning Digest: BJP, Opposition spar at panel meet over Meta’s content moderation practices; 22 children die of Chandipura virus in Gujarat, and more

In a face-off between the ruling party and Opposition MPs on Monday at the meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology, where Meta representatives were summoned in the backdrop of the recent students’ protests, the BJP members, led by panel chairperson Nishikant Dubey, demanded an apology from Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg for restricting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Facebook post, while the Opposition pushed back, arguing that democracy should not be regulated in the name of regulating technology.