{"id":18769,"date":"2025-05-08T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/meta-blocks-major-muslim-instagram-page-in-india-amid-rising-conflict\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:38:00","slug":"meta-blocks-major-muslim-instagram-page-in-india-amid-rising-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/meta-blocks-major-muslim-instagram-page-in-india-amid-rising-conflict\/","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><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/210951f703d7e3928cfbbe9364133dfbd3884567\/13_0_4819_3856\/master\/4819.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8de9fae1ad910286c33576d5399683aa\" title=\"Meta blocks major Muslim Instagram page in India amid rising conflict\" \/>Company referred to policy for restricting content when governments say material goes \u2018against local law\u2019<br \/>\nMeta has banned a prominent Muslim news page on Instagram in India at the government\u2019s request, the account\u2019s founder said on Wednesday, denouncing the move as \u201ccensorship\u201d as hostilities escalate between India and Pakistan.<br \/>\nInstagram 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 Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company referred to policy for restricting content when governments say material goes \u2018against local law\u2019 Meta has banned a prominent Muslim news page on Instagram in India at the government\u2019s request, the account\u2019s founder said on Wednesday, denouncing the move as \u201ccensorship\u201d as hostilities escalate between India and Pakistan. Instagram users in India trying to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/meta-blocks-major-muslim-instagram-page-in-india-amid-rising-conflict\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta blocks major Muslim Instagram page in India amid rising conflict<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}