Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account for several hours during the latest series of demonstrations on Saturday, meant to mobilize voters and encourage early voting in the midterms. Andy Stone, a company spokesperson, acknowledged an “incorrect enforcement” in a post Sunday, writing that the company’s systems detected “intense” activity by a Claude AI tool reading profiles and posts that the firm contended resembled automatic bot traffic, prompting an automatic trigger to shut down the account.

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[–] 5 points 3 days ago

There was a lemmy post about it just a day ago or so. I think it was an account promoting the Elon musk documentary, of which Elon is not a fan.

https://deadline.com/2026/10/tiktok-restores-musk-doc-account-after-error-1237167167/

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