... in the middle of 3000 events happening around the country. Meta says it was an automated system triggered by a lot of activity and they made the wrong call by not overriding it.
Then again Meta has admitted that they hindered Lula's accounts in multiple ways in the first round of the Brazilian presidential election last month so at the very least there's pattern of "non-political" "mistakes" happening. And it took four hours to restore access so even if Meta is telling the truth it's a big red flag that pro-democracy forces need to be thinking about contingency plans in case other accidents affect other accounts with high levels of activity.
So hopefully a bunch of people who currently get or share most of their political news on Insta, FB, or Threads are going to start looking for alternatives, at least as backup plans if more and more of these incidents keep happening.
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/117458528264806859
