It says it fixed a problem 'that briefly caused inappropriate translations' in some Instagram profiles.
Meta has apologised for adding "terrorist" to the biographies of some Instagram users describing themselves as Palestinian.
The users claim 24-hour posts on Stories referencing the conflict have had fewer views than others and that their accounts cannot be found as easily in search.on X, formerly known as Twitter, and TikTok by Instagram user @khanman1996 on Sunday which drew attention to the translation error and documented it happening in a screen recording.
@khanman1996 said in his posts he was not Palestinian himself but had tested the error out after being told about it by an unnamed Palestinian friend.posted after Instagram fixed the issue that the glitch had been up for at least three hours, adding that "to me personally, the fact that it was up at all was insane".Shadow banning is when online services limit the reach or visibility of an account or its content to other users, usually if it falls foul of their guidelines.
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