Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
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Meta permanently disabled the Instagram account of journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, which had over 1 million followers, following a request from Kuwait after his arrest and acquittal.
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Looks like @Meta plans to delete an account with more than a million followers because Ahmed was arrested and then acquitted in Kuwait amid their crackdown. Bowing down to Kuwait is pretty weak, gotta say.
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (@aseisfree): 🚨 After weeks of trying to regain access to my @instagram account, which was temporarily suspended by @accessnow while I was wrongfully detained, I FINALLY got a backup code which allowed me to login only to receive this prompt that my account has been permanently disabled. 😮
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