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Instagram users complain of mass bans, pointing finger at AI


Instagram users report that their accounts were banned even though they had not violated the company's terms of service or other policies.

According to a growing number of social media posts, including on sites like Reddit and X, Instagram users report that their accounts were banned even though they had not violated the company’s terms of service or other policies. Of course, large internet companies will inevitably encounter a certain number of false positives due to their reliance on automated moderation systems, which occasionally make mistakes. For instance, Pinterest earlier this year was facing a similar problem with mass bans, which saw users complaining that their actions and posts hadn’t violated the company’s policies.

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