Meta Restores FIJ’s Facebook Page, Admits Takedown Was ‘Mistake’

Meta, the genitor institution of Facebook, has reinstated the leafage of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism and Social Justice (FIJ) aft admitting its suspension was a mistake.

LEADERSHIP recalls that the leafage was taken offline connected Sunday, with Meta citing “cybersecurity” concerns.

However, successful a connection to FIJ connected Friday, the institution said, “We recovered that our exertion made a mistake suspending your page. Our precedence is keeping the assemblage harmless and respectful, truthful sometimes we person to instrumentality precautions.”

FIJ founder, Fisayo Soyombo, disclosed this connected his idiosyncratic Facebook leafage connected Friday. He wrote: “Meta, the genitor institution of Facebook, has reinstated FIJ Nigeria, the Facebook leafage of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism and Social Justice (FIJ), claiming the takedown was “a mistake”.”

FIJ rejected Meta’s archetypal assertion of a cybersecurity usurpation and filed an appeal, insisting the platform’s rules did not use to its operations. They described the suspension arsenic portion of a broader effort to soundlessness its reporting.

It recalled that connected August 21, its website was forced offline aft cyberattacks traced to the office of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).

The Facebook takedown besides coincided with mounting unit from Nigerian information agencies.

This week, constabulary intensified a crackdown connected FIJ staff. On Tuesday, elder newsman Sodeeq Atanda was detained and questioned for 11 hours earlier being released.

Barely an hr later, FIJ laminitis and editor-in-chief, Fisayo Soyombo, received a constabulary summons.

A missive signed by Assistant Commissioner of Police Musa Hadi, caput of the State Intelligence Department (SID) successful Ekiti, directed Soyombo to look connected September 15 concerning an investigation.

According to FIJ, the constabulary probe is linked to its investigative reports exposing intersexual misconduct allegations against Prof. Abayomi Fasina, Vice Chancellor of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), who is currently on leave.