The deletion of an Instagram account belonging to a mother whose Marine son was killed in Afghanistan last week was a mistake, parent company Facebook said Tuesday.
Shana Chappell raised an alarm on Facebook on Monday after she said her account was removed.
Chappell said she believed the deletion was “because [I] gained so many followers over my [son’s] death due to Biden’s negligence, ignorance and him being a traitor!”
She was referring to President Joe Biden.
The post in question described “my heart break [sic] over my son,” according to Chappell.
Facebook acknowledged the account was deleted but said it has now been restored.
“We express our deepest condolences to Ms. Chappell and her family. Her tribute to her heroic son does not violate any of our policies,” a Facebook spokesperson told news outlets.
“While the post was not removed, her account was incorrectly deleted and we have since restored it,” the spokesperson added.
Chappell did not respond to a request for comment and had not posted about the development as of Tuesday afternoon.
Chappell is the mother of Kareem Nikoui, who was one of 13 U.S. service members who were killed in the suicide bombing attack on the Kabul airport on Aug. 26.
Steve Nikoui, the father of Kareem Nikoui, 20, also blamed Biden for the death.
“They sent my son over there as a paper pusher and then had the Taliban outside providing security,” Steve Nikoui told The Daily Beast. “I blame my own military leaders … Biden turned his back on him. That’s it.”
Read the remarks during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that there were “no words that I can say, that I think anyone can say, to assuage the grief that a parent is feeling at the loss of their child—nothing.”
“And if I were in his shoes, probably I would feel exactly the same way,” he added.
