Overview

• Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department asked Facebook to remove the group, and Meta confirmed it took down the page for violating its policy against coordinated harm.
• The removed community, widely reported as “ICE Sighting—Chicagoland,” had roughly 70,000 to 90,000 members sharing local sightings of federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz.
• Meta’s rules prohibit outing the undercover status of law enforcement with identifying details, though the company did not specify which posts triggered enforcement.
• Earlier this month, Apple pulled the ICEBlock tracking app after DOJ outreach, with Apple citing safety information from law enforcement and developers denouncing the move as censorship.
• Officials point to a sharp rise in attacks on ICE to justify takedowns, but news outlets report no public evidence for the claimed scale, and civil-liberties advocates argue that sharing agent locations is typically protected speech.