Guyana’s top law enforcement official, Attorney General Anil Nandlall, has confirmed he has submitted an official correspondence to Meta Platforms, the parent company of global social media giant Facebook, calling for the establishment of a dedicated formal institutional arrangement between the Guyanese government and the tech firm. While Nandlall has not released specific details about the terms of the requested partnership, he openly signaled that authorities in Guyana have growing discomfort with harmful content circulating on the platform.
In public remarks, Nandlall emphasized the urgent need for closer, ongoing collaboration with major social media platforms, pointing to the rapid speed at which damaging content can spread online. “You need to have a constant engagement with a platform like Facebook. I mean, all of us here are, we are activists of Facebook and you see the destruction that it includes in one post. And by the time you get that post removed, the damage is already done. It’s already done,” he said.
This push for a formal arrangement aligns with the Guyanese government’s recent crackdown on anti-government voices hosted on Meta’s platforms. Nandlall himself has already filed multiple defamation lawsuits against anti-government activists based outside of Guyana, and has pushed to extradite at least one of these critics back to the country to face criminal prosecution.
Currently, the only formal tie between Guyana’s state apparatus and Meta is limited to a portal accessed by the Guyana Police Force via Interpol, Nandlall confirmed. While the company already operates a global portal that allows governments to submit formal requests for content removal and user data disclosure, Guyana has no dedicated government-wide relationship with the firm.
Meta has not yet publicly responded to Nandlall’s new request, nor has it released aggregated data on government requests from Guyana for the full 2025 calendar year to date. The company’s most recent published data covers the first six months of 2025, during which the Guyanese government submitted three formal legal process requests and 13 emergency disclosure requests, targeting information on 13 separate user accounts.
Looking back at prior years, the volume of government requests from Guyana has shifted significantly. In 2024, authorities submitted five emergency disclosure requests, three legal process requests, and sought data on nine user accounts. In 2023, the government submitted 32 legal process requests and 36 requests for user account data, totaling 68 requests that year.
In response to queries about its processing of government requests, Meta has stated that it evaluates all incoming demands for user data and content removal in line with both local applicable laws and the company’s internal terms of service. “Each and every request we receive is carefully reviewed for legal sufficiency, and the company rejects or requires greater specificity on requests that appear overly broad or vague,” a Meta spokesperson said in a previous statement on its government request practices.