Discussion

• @mathewi Mathew Ingram on x

  Norwegian-Iranian Bahareh Letnes, partner of Norway's former fisheries minister, also had posts removed. Letnes had posted a black-and-white photo of Soleimani, adding: “I hope the US military is now thrown out of the Middle East forever. Rest in peace.” https://codastory.com/...

• @mollymckew Molly McKew on x

  Very confused why this would apply to Iran and not the gazillion accounts that praise the Kremlin and Assad. https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @antelava Natalia Antelava on x

  I find it pretty disturbing that @instagram is deleting voices that don't quite fit the US government narrative on Iran. A clear illustration that you can't have a true “public square” quality debate in a private space, be it physical or virtual https://twitter.com/...

• @dmcdev Dan McDevitt on x

  “The only platform where we could freely express ourselves was Instagram. And now Instagram is censoring us.” - @Ammir Insightful story by @isocockerell on Iranian users facing censorship on @instagram not from the government but the platform itself https://codastory.com/...

• @isocockerell Isobel Cockerell on x

  Instagram is the only major social media platform that's not blocked in Iran. Naturally, Iranians flocked there in the wake of Soleimani's killing. But many of their posts were deleted. Not by the IRGC. By Instagram. https://codastory.com/...

• @brooklynmarie Brooke Binkowski on x

  And who owns Instagram? https://twitter.com/...

• @aaschapiro Avi Asher-Schapiro on x

  Instagram deleted a post by Iranian journalist Emadeddin Baghi, a critic of Iran's government, who had nevertheless wrote Soleimani's killing was “contrary to the principles of international law.” Instagram says: “it was complying with US sanctions law.” https://codastory.com/...

• @jilliancyork Chillian J. Yikes on x

  a) Platforms are NOT legally required to take down posts praising foreign-designated terrorist organizations b) “Sanctions law” wouldn't even be the right framing here. c) A barrel of monkeys could do a better job than Instagram's policy team does. https://codastory.com/...

• @jilliancyork Chillian J. Yikes on x

  Read the thread for a correction/amendment at the bottom. Pretty sure Instagram was still wrong, but I conflated the State Dept. list with the OFAC list. https://twitter.com/...