Meta, the company founded and led by Mark Zuckerberg, has apologized for the suspension over the weekend of the Instagram account of the protest movement “No Kings”, attributing the measure to a sudden increase in activity that seemed to stem from traffic generated by automated bots, reports Reuters.
Protesters gathered on Saturday at thousands of events organized across the United States, denouncing the aggressive efforts of President Donald Trump to expel immigrants, the war in Iran and his other policies, as part of the third series of “No Kings” demonstrations.
However, the Instagram account used by organizers and participants was unavailable for over an hour. Andy Stone, the spokesperson for Meta, argued in a message shared on the “X” platform that more time was needed to address the issues related to the organizers’ access to accounts.
Stone stated that the network’s security systems detected the use of a Claude tool that read profiles, messages, and hashtags, with the usage rate suddenly increasing in intense bursts on October 17.
“These abrupt, numerous, and sequential requests, made within a short period of time, resembled the traffic generated by automated bots, and not the usual navigation of a human user through our systems. This activity caused our automatic protection systems to erroneously disable the No Kings Instagram account,” he stated.
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