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Meta Blames Bot Traffic for No Kings Day Instagram Suspension - CNET

Meta, the owner of Instagram, apologized for disabling an Instagram account run by No Kings Coalition, the organizers of the No Kings Day political rallies held across the country on Oct. 17.

Meta’s vice president of communications, Andy Stone, posted about the events on X the day of the rallies, with a follow-up message the next day. Stone said the blackout lasted about an hour in the middle of the protests and was an accidental shutdown caused by the engineering team’s automated systems detecting a traffic spike.

Specifically, the team detected a Claude AI tool reading profiles, posts and hashtags at an unusually high rate.

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“It unfortunately took additional time for us to straighten out the situation with admin access to the IG account,” Stone wrote.

A representative for Meta did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.

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