Attack on the independent publication Gândul, the strongest opposition newspaper in Romania. For more than two months, Facebook has shut down the newspaper’s page with 1 million followers and refuses to restore it
19:00, 08 Apr. 2026
The company Meta, which operates the Facebook platform, shut down the Gândul newspaper’s page on February 22, 2026, without any warning or clear explanation. In a single day, the page disappeared and Gândul’s traffic collapsed, with an immediate loss of 6–7 million daily views and nearly 200 million monthly views on Facebook and on the website.