Shafaqna English– Meta has banned a prominent Muslim news page on Instagram in India at the government’s request as hostilities escalate between India and Pakistan.
Instagram users in India trying to access posts from the handle @Muslim — a page with 6.7 million followers — were met with a message stating: “Account not available in India. This is because we complied with a legal request to restrict this content.”
There was no immediate reaction from the Indian government on the ban, which comes after access was blocked to the social media accounts of Pakistani actors and cricketers.
“I received hundreds of messages, emails, and comments from our followers in India, that they cannot access our account,” Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh, the news account’s Founder and Editor-in-Chief, said in a statement.
“Meta has blocked the @Muslim account by legal request of the Indian government. This is censorship.”
Source: France24