Meta blocks dozens of accounts protesting Kushner-linked Albanian resort project – POLITICO

Dozens of Instagram accounts linked to Albanian activists, journalists and an opposition party leader have been closed or disabled amid ongoing protests over a luxury hotel development linked to U.S President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Protests have been taking place in Albania for nearly 100 days over plans to develop a luxury resort along the southern coast in a project backed by Jared Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, the U.S. president’s eldest daughter. The demonstrations, dubbed the Flamingo Revolution, have since evolved into a call for the entire Albanian government to resign.

Sandro Gozi, an Italian member of the European Parliament, denounced the blocking of the Instagram accounts. “When dozens of opposition and activist accounts linked to the same protest movement disappear almost simultaneously, we cannot simply treat it as a technical problem, ” said Gozi, European Democratic Party Secretary General and MEP for Renew Europe, said in a statement circulated to the media Thursday. “Meta must explain what happened, and it must do so quickly.”