The protest coalition says Meta suspended its Instagram account for 90 minutes at the height of nationwide demonstrations—and even after restoring the page, locked organizers out of posting. Meta reportedly admitted it made a “bad call.”
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In the middle of the mass No Kings’ rallies that happened across the country to protest the disgust and garbage in our country and to mobilize early voting, Mark Zuckerberg’s Suckerberg’s META pulled the plug on the No Kings movement’s Instagram account.
Once META restored the account, the organizers still could not post, according to Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, one of the leading organizations behind the No Kings movement.
You can go to it publicly now, but we can’t post, and despite us trying to get back access to it while these mobilizations are going on, the No Kings Coalition has no access to the back end of that account. Look, this is strikingly reminiscent of what we saw in Brazil just this week. A court ruled against Meta for favoring the authoritarians in that country. And we might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now, but rest assured, we’re not going to stop organizing against this regime.
“They suspended it. We didn’t have access to it. We couldn’t post to it. Nobody could go to the page,” Levin explained.
Meta’s communications officer Any Stone responded to Mediaite’s request for comment by deferring to its X account:
