Meta Unpublishes FIJ’s Facebook Page For ‘Cybersecurity’ Reasons
Big tech company Meta has taken down ‘FIJ Nigeria’, the Facebook page of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), over cybersecurity concerns.
In a pop-up message on Sunday, Meta said that it unpublished the FIJ Nigeria page because it went against its community standards on cybersecurity.
Although the medium disagreed with the decision and has since applied for a restoration of the account, Meta’s rules on cybersecurity do not apply to FIJ.
OSUN DEFENDER learnt that as at press time last night, FIJ’s Facebook page was still down. But FIJ is expecting a decision from Meta on Thursday. The firm said it responds to restoration requests in four days or less.
Meta’s action is the latest in a long line of FIJ’s periodic battles for publishing stories that powerful people do not want the public to see.
The medium also claimed that on August 21, its website experienced a downtime after multiple coordinated cyberattacks from the headquarters of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
Only on Tuesday, the Ekiti state Police command detained Sodiq Atanda, a Senior Reporter with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), for 11 hours at their headquarters in Ado-Ekiti after he honoured their invitation for documenting the sexual misconduct of Abayomi Fasina, the on-leave Vice Chancellor of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE).
Sodiq Yusuf is a trained media practitioner and journalist with considerable years of experience in print, broadcast, and digital journalism. His interests cover a wide range of causes in politics, governance, sports, community development, and good governance.
