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. Millions of views disappeared overnight

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...