{"id":194651,"date":"2026-02-11T11:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=194651"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:42:28","slug":"meta-blocks-indian-news-accounts-critical-of-modi-govt-amid-growing-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/02\/11\/meta-blocks-indian-news-accounts-critical-of-modi-govt-amid-growing-censorship.html","title":{"rendered":"Meta blocks Indian news accounts critical of Modi govt amid growing censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-194660\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/5-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi: Meta, the American tech giant, has blocked Instagram accounts of the Kerala\u2019s Malayalam newspaper Deshabhimani, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and the online news portal \u2018No Cap\u2019, highlighting growing restrictions on independent voices in India\u2019s digital space. Earlier, news portal The Wire\u2019s Instagram account was temporarily blocked in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Deshabhimani\u2019s Instagram account was disabled on February 1, coinciding with India\u2019s budget presentation. Coordinating Editor Sajan Evugen said repeated appeals to Meta for reinstatement over the past 10 days have gone unanswered. The newspaper noted that its coverage criticizing the BJP and RSS, highlighting the Indian government\u2019s neglect of Kerala, and opposing its anti-people policies may have triggered the action.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, No Cap faced permanent suspension after sharing content critical of the RSS and related to Indian PM Modi\u2019s name in the Epstein files. Executive Editor Ali Hyder said Meta initially cited \u201ccommunity standards violations\u201d without specifying any post or content.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, several Instagram pages that have criticised the Indian government were also disabled in the past week. In a social media post, The Wire stated that they had learned informally that the Indian ministry had asked Meta to block a 52-second satirical animation critical of Modi on Instagram. After the account was restored, the cartoon remained inaccessible.<\/p>\n<p>These incidents underscore an increasingly restricted digital space in Modi\u2019s India, where social media platforms face pressure to suppress dissenting voices. Observers say such actions raise serious concerns over freedom of expression and the survival of independent journalism in the country\u2019s online sphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Meta, the American tech giant, has blocked Instagram accounts of the Kerala\u2019s Malayalam newspaper Deshabhimani, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and the online news portal \u2018No Cap\u2019, highlighting growing restrictions on independent voices in India\u2019s digital space. Earlier, news portal The Wire\u2019s Instagram account was temporarily blocked in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/5-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194661,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194651\/revisions\/194661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}