Meta is now blocking links to ICE List—the website that publishes the identities of federal immigration agents—just days after Border Patrol officers shot and killed a second unarmed American in the span of two weeks.
Since Monday, anyone trying to post URLs from ICE List on Facebook or Threads gets slapped with an error message claiming the link “goes against our Community Standards.” No further explanation. Just silence from a company whose CEO sat directly behind Donald Trump at the inauguration.
WHAT’S GOING ON: ICE List gained national attention earlier this month when The Daily Beast reported it had obtained leaked details of roughly 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees—including names, roles, work emails, phone numbers, and some resumé information for nearly 2,000 frontline agents.
The source? Allegedly a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower who was furious about ICE agent Jonathan Ross killing unarmed mother Renee Nicole Good, 37, in Minneapolis.
The site’s founder, Dominick Skinner, told the Beast that for “six or seven months, you could post links to our sites on Meta platforms without any issue. This is an overnight change.” He noted the block seemed to come “directly after we posted a link asking for tips related to the murder of Alex Pretti”—the 37-year-old VA nurse who Border Patrol agents “manhandled and repeatedly blasted to death” on January 24th.
THE DETAILS: Meta claims its privacy policy prohibits sharing “personal contact information” and “personally identifiable information” of law enforcement, military, or security personnel. A spokesperson said the company has “taken similar action in the past” and would “promptly take appropriate action” against future violations.
But Skinner isn’t buying it. “We don’t share private information, and websites that do can still be shared on Meta’s social,” he said. “I’ve tested sharing links from other people-search websites, and they work fine.” He added that you can even share individual agent profiles on Meta without issues—”so their explanation doesn’t really hold much weight.”
OF COURSE: This cozy censorship arrives amid Zuckerberg’s aggressive pivot toward Trump. Meta contributed to Trump’s gaudy $400 million White House ballroom project alongside Amazon, Apple, and Google. Zuckerberg scored a prime seat at the inauguration. And Skinner says Meta’s algorithm suppression of ICE List isn’t new: “Quite regularly, our views on a post will only get a couple of hundred views, while we’re closing in on 200,000 followers.”
“I believe that Mark Zuckerberg is in bed with the regime,” Skinner said. “His algorithms have worked to shape people into right-wing followers. And Meta donated to the Trump Ballroom. I don’t believe that it’s somehow an accident that a company so deeply ingrained in this regime is suddenly blocking a website that actively fights against it.”
WHY IT MATTERS: ICE List exists specifically because the Trump administration refuses to identify the agents responsible for killing civilians. With Good and Pretti dead at the hands of federal immigration officers in under two weeks—and no accountability in sight—the site represents one of the few mechanisms for public transparency. Now the most powerful social media company in the world is making sure fewer people can access it.
Skinner operates the site from the Netherlands specifically so the U.S. government can’t shut it down. But when Silicon Valley billionaires align with the administration, formal government censorship becomes unnecessary. The platforms do the work themselves.