Decades ago, the famous intellectual Noam Chomsky, in his 1991 book Media Control, explained how the U.S. government uses propaganda to push its agenda. Fast forward to today, and a retired Indian Air Force officer is making a bold claim: social media giants like Facebook and Instagram, owned by META, are doing the same thing by siding with the U.S. government and blocking Russian media outlets.

According to Air Marshal (Retd) M. Matheswaran, META poses a serious risk to countries that don’t follow the Western worldview. He believes that platforms like Facebook and Instagram are pushing only one side of global issues, especially those that align with American interests. And if anyone dares to question this, they may find themselves blocked or banned from these platforms.

Matheswaran argued that this kind of control is dangerous, not just for countries like India, but for the whole world. "An American billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg, has way too much control over what people see...