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.”
“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 declined to comment. A spokesman for the tech giant directed AFP to a company webpage outlining its policy for restricting content when governments believe material on its platforms goes “against local law.”
Both countries have exchanged heavy artillery fire along their contested frontier, after New Delhi launched deadly missile strikes on its arch-rival.
Pakistan rejects the charge and has warned it will “avenge” those killed by Indian air strikes.
“We will continue to document the truth and stand out firmly for justice,“ he added, while calling on Meta to reinstate the account in India.
In recent days, access to the Instagram account of Pakistan’s former prime minister and cricket captain Imran Khan has also been blocked in India.
Rising hostilities between the South Asian neighbors have also unleashed an avalanche of online misinformation, with social media users circulating everything from deepfake videos to outdated images from unrelated conflicts, falsely linking them to the Indian strikes.
On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump called for India and Pakistan to immediately halt their fighting, and offered to help end the violence.
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