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meta has been removed Facebook The page was used to track the presence of immigration agents at the request of the Justice Department, the company confirmed Tuesday.
Attorney General palm bondi A post on X said that “after reaching out” from the DOJ, Facebook removed a “large group page” that was being used to target ICE officers.
Meta said in a statement that the group was removed “for violating our policies against coordinated harm.”
Meta is the latest tech company to ban tools used to track ICE agents on its platform. Earlier this month, Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that caught the eye of US immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration sought to remove one particularly popular iPhone app.
Bondi has said that such tracking puts Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials at risk. But users and developers of the apps say it’s their First Amendment right to capture what ICE is doing in their neighborhoods — and that’s to ensure that most users turn to these platforms in an effort to protect their safety as the president does. donald trump Increasing aggressive immigration enforcement across the country.
While a Facebook group for ICE philosophy chicago It appears to have been removed, as as of Tuesday evening, dozens of other groups, some with thousands of members, were visible on Facebook.