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Meta is a tool of fascism. (It has been for a long time, but no time like the present to figure it out).

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

Apparently at around 1:30 PM ET, the main accounts for the No Kings coalition on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. Admins have lost access to the account and are unable to log in. This happened at the peak of the organization's national day of action. Instagram, of course, is owned by Meta.

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I don't want to victim blame or anything but if indivisible PR and c3i wasn't hitched so close to meta this would be a nothing burger to chew uo and spit in Mark's eye. The "be fully spineless" fine print on the No Kings website, kinda a stormcrow

Mike Masnick thinks it looks pretty bad, but does point out that the upswing in interest could've triggered some sort of automated process - maybe for bot detection or something; I guess I really should play his trust and safety game - rather than a human political decision bsky.app/profile/masn...

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

Always hesitant to ascribe nefariousness to things like this. There are all sorts of reasons why this might have happened (accounts suddenly getting a lot of attention after a period of quiet, could trip an automated wire, for example), but... really... this looks bad.

There might come a time where more drastic actions are needed in order to restore the balance of power and to advert millions more people dying because billionaires feel they still don’t have enough