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Thousands of Koreans were banned from Instagram this week. I was one of them.


Thousands of Korean Instagram accounts were deactivated, allegedly due to AI errors, leaving users unable to access their profiles without submitting their IDs..

I barely managed to squeeze into the second one I found, which calls itself “The group of victims that have been temporarily or permanently suspended by Instagram,” which was nearing its limit, at 2,800 members, on Wednesday afternoon. A house rule made clear that anyone who uploaded a photo of Mark Zuckerberg would be banned — though plenty of people insulted the Meta CEO, with one saying he "sucks at his job." Instagram has generously offered to allow me to “download all of the information” that I've shared with the app, but when I click the link, it just asks me to log in and — surprise — upload an ID.

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