Meta suspends the Facebook pages of SMNI News and related pages, such as DZAR 1026 Sonshine Radio and SMNI Integrated News, owned by Apollo Quiboloy‘s Sonshine Media Network International.
Full story: https://www.rappler.com/technology/social-media/meta-suspension-smni-news-dzar-1026-radio-station-pages-march-2025/
Full story: https://www.rappler.com/technology/social-media/meta-suspension-smni-news-dzar-1026-radio-station-pages-march-2025/
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00:00Meta suspends the Facebook pages of SMNI news and related pages, such as DZAR 1026 Sunshine
00:06Radio and SMNI Integrated News, owned by embattled Doomsday preacher Apollo Kibuloy's Sunshine
00:11Media Network International.
00:13SMNI announced in an article on its website and social media posts that Meta suspended
00:18these accounts for expressing hatred or contempt for a group of people and using harmful racial
00:22stereotypes.
00:23SMNI has a track record of fueling disinformation and red-tagging journalists and activists
00:28critical of former President Rodrigo Duterte and Kibuloy.
00:32The suspension comes after Duterte's arrest by the Interpol on behalf of the International
00:36Criminal Court.
00:37Senator Bato de la Rosa criticized Meta's suspension of SMNI News' accounts, suggesting
00:42followers follow other pages.
00:44This is not the first time SMNI News' Facebook page became inaccessible.