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Eugene

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Fri Feb 9, 2024, 01:12 PM Feb 2024

Meta removes Instagram, Facebook accounts of Iran's Khamenei

Source: Agence France Presse

Meta removes Instagram, Facebook accounts of Iran's Khamenei

ssued on: 08/02/2024 - 21:45
Modified: 08/02/2024 - 21:43
1 min

San Francisco (AFP) – Meta on Thursday said it had removed the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for violating its content policy.

"We have removed these accounts for repeatedly violating our Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy," a Meta spokesperson told AFP.

Though Meta did not mention the Israel-Hamas war, the company has been under pressure to ban the leader ever since the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.

After the attack, Khamenei supported the bloody rampage by Hamas, but denied any Iranian involvement.

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Read more: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240208-meta-removes-instagram-facebook-accounts-of-iran-s-khamenei

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Meta removes Instagram, Facebook accounts of Iran's Khamenei (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2024 OP
Really? Only now? Who else has open and free use of KPN Feb 2024 #1

KPN

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1. Really? Only now? Who else has open and free use of
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 01:20 PM
Feb 2024

Facebook? Putin?

Zuckerberg is such a worm. No, worse … he’s a frigging nematode.

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