BND - Meta suspends 'no kings' Instagram account amid protests

🗞️ Story file #655

Meta suspends 'no kings' Instagram account amid protests

Oct 19, 2 PM ET to Oct 20, 7 AM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏3 · 3 · 2🐘left · center · right
17 hourson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
34 sof TV captions

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 19, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Hill
Oct 19, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 19, 7 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 19, 2 PM to Oct 20, 7 AM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 quoted: “No Kings” 4

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Newsmax (2 wordings): “Meta Sorry for Suspending 'No Kings' IG Account” → “Meta Sorry for Suspending 'No Kings' Instagram Account”
The Hill (2 wordings): “No Kings account suspended by Meta during protests — not a coincidence?” → “Meta apologizes for suspending ‘No Kings’ Instagram account, blaming bot traffic increase”
The New Republic (2 wordings): “Meta Defends Blocking No Kings’ Instagram in the Middle of Event” → “Meta Weakly Defends Blocking No Kings Instagram in the Middle of Event”

Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating