Trump wanted to give No Kings no air. Then, Meta suspended its Instagram.
Meta faces pressure to protect No Kings Instagram on election day.
Meta faces pressure to protect No Kings Instagram on election day.
The short version
- Over the weekend, the No Kings Coalition said Meta declined to commit to taking steps to prevent automated systems from suspending one of Instagram’s most prominent pro-democracy accounts if activity surged around the page during the midterm elections.
- On October 30, Meta executives met with No Kings.
- Initially, there was no centralized Instagram account where the groups could coordinate their social media messaging.
What happened
But as the November 3 election approached, the coalition got more organized, hoping that an official No Kings account with a large following would help it identify and amplify content ahead of the fourth event. That’s when No Kings decided to use Claude as a “keyword and hashtag search tool to track conversations across social media platforms,” the group’s social media team told Ars.
Why it matters
According to Stone, the Claude tool was “reading profiles, posts, and hashtags,” which “sharply” increased the account’s activity in “intense bursts” that “resembled automated bot traffic rather than an ordinary human browsing our systems.”.
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