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Meta has removed a Facebook page used to track the presence of
immigration agents at the request of the Department of Justice,
the company confirmed on Tuesday.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on X that “following
outreach” from the DOJ, Facebook removed a “large group page”
that was being used to target ICE officials.
Meta said in a statement that the group "was removed for
violating our policies against coordinated harm.”
Meta is the latest tech company to restrict tools used to track
ICE agents on its platform. Earlier this month, Apple and Google
blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S.
immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration
demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken down.
Bondi has said that such tracking puts Immigration and Customs
Enforcement officers at risk. But users and developers of the
apps say it’s their First Amendment right to capture what ICE is
doing in their neighborhoods — and maintain that most users turn
to these platforms in an effort to protect their own safety as
President Donald Trump steps up aggressive immigration
enforcement across the country.
While a Facebook group for ICE sightings in Chicago does appear
to have been taken down, as of Tuesday evening, dozens of other
groups, some with thousands of members, remained visible on
Facebook.
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