No Kings Instagram Page Yanked In Midst of Anti-Trump Protests

Meta inexplicably yanked the main Instagram accounts for the No Kings Coalition in the midst of Saturday’s protests across the country.

MS NOW’s Antonia Hylton reported Saturday afternoon, “We have some breaking news as we follow No Kings protests nationwide. A spokesperson for No Kings says the main accounts for the coalition on Instagram were frozen and pulled down, and the administrators lost access to the account at the peak of their national day of action. They say this happened at about 1:30 p.m. Eastern. MS NOW is out to Meta for comment. We have not yet heard back.”

Organizer Ezra Levin told Meidas Touch, “In the middle of that joyful experience at the protest locally, I got word from my team that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta had suspended the Instagram account for the No Kings Coalition. They suspended it. We didn’t have access to it. We couldn’t post to it. Nobody could go to the page. That was for about an hour-and-a-half, during the height of the mobilization while people were still getting their No Kings protests together. As I talk to you, there are people still pulling their No Kings protests together, but we can’t access the account now.”

Levin continued:

You can go to it publicly now, but we can’t post, and despite us trying to get back access to it while these mobilizations are going on, the No Kings Coalition has no access to the back end of that account. Look, this is strikingly reminiscent of what we saw in Brazil just this week. A court ruled against Meta for favoring the authoritarians in that country. And we might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now, but rest assured, we’re not going to stop organizing against this regime.

Meta’s communications officer Any Stone responded to Mediaite’s request for comment by deferring to its X account:

“When accounts post, share or comment at very high frequencies it can trigger automated systems,” Stone wrote. “That’s what happened with the No Kings IG account in the lead up to today’s day of action. Unfortunately, that automated action was clearly taken in error. Everything is now working as it should and we sincerely apologize.”

Saturday’s events marked the fourth round of No Kings protests since President Donald Trump returned to office in early 2025.

Watch the clip above via MS NOW.

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