50000 users say Meta wrongly shut down their Facebook and Instagram accounts

An online petition that more than 51,000 people have signed on to claims that Meta wrongly disabled their Facebook and Instagram accounts. Among them: Two moms who claim they were told Meta shut down their accounts for good because of child sexual exploitation, something they say would never happen on their social media. Everyone agrees that keeping illegal filth off Facebook and Instagram is important. But these petitioners say somehow Facebook and Instagram are flagging people who did nothing wrong. Meta says it permanently disabled Tara Hanover’s Instagram and Facebook pages – her teenage daughter’s, too – over child sexual exploitation, abuse, and nudity. “I am worried because it impacts my work. It impacts my business,” Hanover said. Melodie Edwards got the exact same message from Meta: her account was shut down for child exploitation. “That’s some pretty heinous accusations, and nothing could be further from the truth,” Edwards said. For Tara Hanover, it means her business, a regional magazine, has no social media footprint, and her attempts to appeal the decision with Meta have gone nowhere. “You have got to have a person, a customer service department, that you can go to when this happens because there’s no accountability,”
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