Meta pulls 1M-follower account after Kuwaiti government request

Meta reportedly removed a popular account with roughly one million followers following a takedown request from the Kuwaiti government, according to a post by journalist Ryan Grim. The underlying article content is inaccessible because the source is an X (formerly Twitter) post that fails to render without JavaScript, leaving only the headline as substantive information.

The incident, if accurate, fits a broader pattern of platform moderation decisions driven by sovereign government requests rather than independent policy enforcement. Such removals raise familiar tensions between platform compliance with foreign legal demands, transparency obligations, and the speech interests of users who built audiences on those platforms.

Without access to the full thread or supporting reporting, details about the account’s identity, the stated rationale for the Kuwaiti request, and Meta’s specific justification remain unverified from this source alone.