Instagram censoring accounts that are discussing Ukraine

11 points by King-Aaron ↗ HN
One extremely popular (and rapidly growing) Instagram page that's popped up during this crisis - @northernprovisions - was suddenly taken down this evening after making a string of posts documenting the invasion of Ukraine.

Has anyone else noticed this happening? The owner of the page seems to think it's happened straight after they made a post implying the Chinese may take advantage of the situation.

Not that it's surprising, but kind of disappointing to see.

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FB took down Russian infoop. Whats surpising here?
This page was reposting content from other publishers and was clearly western/pro-western. After being online for several days, it was closed within a couple of minutes of mentioning Taiwan.

Not exactly Russian infoop.

On Twitter, I saw this account get suspended after posting a video of shelling footage in eastern Ukraine: https://twitter.com/UkrWarReport

The video was getting a lot of traction and then suddenly embeds stopped working.