Prior to the correction on Sunday, The Wire claimed Meta provided Amit Malviya, an information technology executive with India’s governing BJP party, the authority to erase postings from Instagram, something Meta has continuously denied. Rather than back down after the company issued a comprehensive rebuttal on October 12th, The Wire continued to publish stories claiming Meta was misleading the public, culminating in an October 15th article featuring a screen recording the outlet claimed showed proof of the original takedown request that sparked the entire saga. One day later, Meta said that an internal inquiry discovered the video revealed a Workspace account formed on October 13th, implying that the account was created to back up The Wire’s claim.
