MUMBAI, July 30 - India has summoned executives from U.S.

tech giant Meta, a senior official said on

Thursday, after its Facebook platform briefly restricted a post

by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week.

* A video message by Modi posted on Meta's Instagram

platform and later shared on Facebook was restricted temporarily

on the latter.

* A Meta spokesperson said at the time that the post had

been blocked inadvertently.

* "We have asked Meta to come in at the highest level and

explain what is happening," S. Krishnan, secretary at the

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, said on

Thursday.

* He did not say who, specifically, had been requested to

appear.

* Meta told Indian authorities it established new protocols

relating to accounts of prominent persons to prevent such a

situation from recurring, Krishnan added.

* Meta India did not immediately respond to a Reuters

request for comment on Thursday.

* Modi's video post on July 23, his first addressing the

massive student protests that forced Education Minister

Dharmendra Pradhan to resign on Saturday, has more than 404

million views on Instagram.

* The sparring with Meta is the latest example of Modi's

government taking on Big Tech over content-related issues.

* India is Facebook's biggest market by users.

(Writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by Joe Bavier)