Meta blocked all posts from The Kansas Reflector on Thursday after the nonprofit newspaper called out Facebook, which owns Meta, and other forms of social media in an article.

of ITEMtitled “When Facebook Fails, Local Media Matters Even More to Our Planet's Future,” directly calls out Meta and Facebook for suppressing climate change-related posts and highlights the role of local media to step up.

“We're doing just fine without Facebook's promotional help, but it seems problematic that a behemoth like Meta can dictate the terms of our communication,” documentary producer Dave Kendall wrote in the opinion piece.

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According to one Friday's article BY reflectorFacebook stopped the publication from sharing Kendall's opinion piece on Thursday and subsequently removed all links to the media on its platform.

Andy Stone, director of communications at Meta, I apologize about Thursday's error and said the error “had nothing to do with Reflektor's recent criticism of Meta.” He said the error had been corrected.

On Friday, Facebook had restored all posts related to The Kansas Reflector's stories – except for anything related to Kendall's article, which was still out for a period of time.

By Friday night, the issue had been fully resolved and users were able to link to and view Kendall's article.

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Independent journalist Marisa Kabas reposted Kansas Reflector column on Friday “in an effort to circumvent Meta's censorship” and said the damage had already been done: the articles had already been flagged as malicious.

“This is a big problem because it undermines our trust,” Kabas said CNN Business.