Facebook on Thursday said that it had temporarily blocked a hashtag calling for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's resignation "by mistake" and that it wasn't done on government orders.
According to reports, a hashtag calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefly blocked on Facebook on Wednesday. Users searching the hashtag were given a message that said such posts were "temporarily hidden here" because "some content in those posts goes against our Community Standards".
"We temporarily blocked this hashtag by mistake, not because the Indian government asked us to, and have since restored it," a Facebook spokespersonsaid in a statement.