Instagram User @Metaverse Says Account Deactivated After Facebook Rebrand – Business Insider

An Instagram user with the @metaverse handle says her account was disabled after Facebook rebranded. The platform said her account was taken down because she was impersonating someone. It wasn’t until a month later that Instagram apologized and reinstated her account. Loading Something is loading. An artist told The New York Times that Instagram disabled her @metaverse account after its parent company Facebook rebranded to Meta.Australia-based Thea-Mai Baumann told The Times that she’s had an Instagram account since 2012 with the handle @metaverse. She posted about her AR company, Metaverse Makeovers, on her account. The app allowed users to try on holographic nail designs.But on Nov. 2, five days after Facebook announced its name change, Baumann told the outlet that Instagram had disabled it.”Your account has been blocked for pretending to be someone else,” read a message in her app. She tried to get answers from Instagram, including who she was accused of impersonating, to no avail. It wasn’t until a month later that The New York Times reached out to Meta inquiring what had happened.An Instagram spokesperson told the paper that the account was “incorrectly removed for impersonation.””We’re sorry this error occurred,” they said, per The Times, without elaborating…
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