#contentmoderationerrors — Public Fediverse posts

TechSpot: Amazon is blocking some users from seeing reviews after mistaking them for AI bots. “WTF?! Amazon is restricting access to customer reviews for some shoppers after mistakenly identifying them as AI bots or data scrapers. Affected users can see just eight reviews per product, with the usual sorting and filtering tools removed. Anyone who wants to fix things must ask Amazon to restore […]

TechSpot: Amazon is blocking some users from seeing reviews after mistaking them for AI bots. “WTF?! Amazon is restricting access to customer reviews for some shoppers after mistakenly identifying them as AI bots or data scrapers. Affected users can see just eight reviews per product, with the usual sorting and filtering tools removed. Anyone who wants to fix things must ask Amazon to restore […]

Fast Company: Tech giants struggle to censor graphic videos of Perez Hilton appearing to harm himself. “The graphic video continued for several minutes before TikTok, where it originated, took it down. In the comments, many users pleaded for Hilton to stop, asked him to get help, and said they were contacting the police. According to a TikTok U.S. spokesperson, the livestream was flagged by an […]

Fast Company: Tech giants struggle to censor graphic videos of Perez Hilton appearing to harm himself. “The graphic video continued for several minutes before TikTok, where it originated, took it down. In the comments, many users pleaded for Hilton to stop, asked him to get help, and said they were contacting the police. According to a TikTok U.S. spokesperson, the livestream was flagged by an […]

Poynter: A hyperlocal news page falls victim to Facebook’s AI. “Like many large technology platforms, Facebook now relies heavily on automated AI systems to detect accounts and pages it believes violate its policies. On July 11, it shut down The Bloomingtonian page, telling the publisher/editor/reporter Jeremy Hogan ‘the Page, or activity on it, may misuse our platform to pretend to be a […]

Poynter: A hyperlocal news page falls victim to Facebook’s AI. “Like many large technology platforms, Facebook now relies heavily on automated AI systems to detect accounts and pages it believes violate its policies. On July 11, it shut down The Bloomingtonian page, telling the publisher/editor/reporter Jeremy Hogan ‘the Page, or activity on it, may misuse our platform to pretend to be a […]

New York Times: What Happened When Meta Used A.I. to Ban Accounts on Facebook and Instagram. This link goes to a gift article. “What happened to the Hansons was a case of artificial intelligence gone wrong. The technology is increasingly responsible for deciding which accounts broke Meta’s content rules while also managing the appeals for those decisions. Adding to people’s distress, it is […]

New York Times: What Happened When Meta Used A.I. to Ban Accounts on Facebook and Instagram. This link goes to a gift article. “What happened to the Hansons was a case of artificial intelligence gone wrong. The technology is increasingly responsible for deciding which accounts broke Meta’s content rules while also managing the appeals for those decisions. Adding to people’s distress, it is […]

BBC: Angry, confused and worried about police – behind Instagram bans. “Instagram users have told the BBC of their confusion, fear and anger after having their accounts suspended, often for being wrongly accused by parent company Meta of breaching the platform’s child sex abuse rules.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/19/bbc-angry-confused-and-worried-about-police-behind-instagram-bans/