{"id":71652,"date":"2025-05-08T23:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/08\/meta-instagram-muslim-news-page"},"modified":"2025-05-08T23:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:55:58","slug":"meta-blocks-major-muslim-instagram-page-in-india-amid-rising-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71652","title":{"rendered":"Meta blocks major Muslim Instagram page in India amid rising conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company referred to policy for restricting content when governments say material goes \u2018against local law\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Meta has banned a prominent Muslim news page on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/instagram\">Instagram<\/a> in India at the government\u2019s request, the account\u2019s founder said on Wednesday, denouncing the move as \u201ccensorship\u201d as hostilities escalate between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pakistan\">Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram users in India trying to access posts from the handle @Muslim \u2013 a page with 6.7 million followers \u2013 were met with a message stating: \u201cAccount not available in India. This is because we complied with a legal request to restrict this content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/08\/meta-instagram-muslim-news-page\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company referred to policy for restricting content when governments say material goes \u2018against local law\u2019Meta has banned a prominent Muslim news page on Instagram in India at the government\u2019s request, the account\u2019s founder said on Wednesday, denouncing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[687,62,840,2615,60,824,61,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-india","category-instagram","category-meta","category-pakistan","category-social-networking","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71653,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71652\/revisions\/71653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}