Quiboloy's Facebook, Instagram pages appear unavailable

ABS-CBN News

<p>MANILA - The official Facebook and Instagram pages of religious leader Apollo Quiboloy appeared to be unavailable on Thursday night, a month after YouTube removed his channel from the video-sharing platform.</p><p>Both Quiboloy and Meta, operator of Facebook and Instagram, have not yet issued a statement on the apparent erasure of his public pages, as of writing.</p><p>In July, YouTube took down the page of Quiboloy-owned Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI). The platform also suspended his YouTube channel for violations of community guidelines.</p><p>According to Google, which owns YouTube, it &quot;is committed to compliance with applicable US sanctions laws and enforces related policies under its Terms of Service,&quot; a spokesperson for the video-sharing platform said. </p><p>&quot;After review and consistent with these policies, we terminated the Laban Kasama ang Bayan, KOJC, &amp; SMNI YouTube channels,&quot; the spokesperson said. </p><p>This was preceded by the callout of gaming YouTuber Mutahar, also known as SomeOrdinaryGamers, who raised issues about Quiboloy&#x27;s channel to YouTube via Twitter on Tuesday, citing the human trafficking cases against the Davao-based Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) founder filed in the United States.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/21/23/youtube-suspends-apollo-quiboloys-channel/">YouTube takes down Apollo Quiboloy&#x27;s channel over policy violations</a></li></ul><p>In 2022, the United States&#x27; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placed Quiboloy on its most wanted list for a string of cases, including sex trafficking of children, fraud, coercion, conspiracy, and bulk cash smuggling. </p><p>The FBI announcement came a year after the preacher was indicted in the US for sex trafficking, with American prosecutors alleging that some girls and young women were coerced to have sex with him.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2766753" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

Both Quiboloy and Meta, operator of Facebook and Instagram, have not yet issued a statement on this development, as of writing.