The No Kings Coalition sent an open letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding transparency after the company suspended the coalition's Instagram account on October 17 during a nationwide early vote mobilization event.
Meta took the account offline at 1:30 p.m. ET, when engagement was peaking across nearly 3,000 events in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. The page was hidden and administrators were locked out without explanation. Meta restored public visibility at 3:03 p.m. ET after public backlash and admitted in an email that it had wrongly taken the account offline. However, administrators remained unable to access the backend for more than four hours until 5:41 p.m. ET.
Meta representatives cited a "technical glitch" in their public statements.
The coalition demanded public responses to nine questions by 5:00 p.m. PT on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. The questions seek details on alleged policy violations, enforcement logs, any communications between Meta and the Trump administration regarding No Kings or the October 17 events, internal directives related to pro-democracy content, hashtag throttling of #NoKings, AI moderation protocols, emergency redress procedures, and Meta's whitelist practices for high-profile accounts.
"Critical voter information or civic participation should not be blocked, throttled, or otherwise interfered with if Meta aspires to be a trusted actor in our democracy," the coalition wrote. "The public deserves answers."
The No Kings Coalition planned a virtual call for October 21 at 8 p.m. ET to discuss next steps.