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National
Aditi Agrawal

Expert take: Why was the Wire compelled to pull down its Meta stories?

After insisting for over a week that its reporting supposedly exposing how Meta allowed BJP leaders to censor content on its platforms was solid, the Wire on Tuesday pulled down the work pending a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”.

The Wire reported earlier this month that Meta’s controversial XCheck programme enabled BJP’s Amit Malviya to take down content critical of his party on Instagram, which the American social media company runs along with Facebook and WhatsApp.

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