Meta Pulls No Kings Instagram Account on Protest Day, Restores It 90 Minutes Later
Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day
Meta suspended the No Kings Instagram account on the day of the protest, leaving organizers without a response for roughly 90 minutes before the account returned. Hacker News commenters largely read it as an automated enforcement misfire, possibly triggered by coordinated mass reporting, and argue that platforms leaning on cheap automation will keep knocking political content offline. Others note a 90-minute outage is nothing like a real deplatforming.
Meta and other big tech usually over-rely on automated enforcement because it's easier on their wallets than hiring enough moderators to keep up in near-real time.