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Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished
- beardyw 5y agohttps://archive.ph/z9X9X https://archive.ph/z9X9X
- necovek 5y agoTL;DR — metaverse Instagram account was flagged for misrepresentation post FB rebranding, then reinstated once an actual human in support was reached. Story is just like any other automatically-flagged acount story, except that it seems likely this only happened once "metaverse" was added to some internal special-case list. To avoid this happening, don't use an external platform for your "life's work".
- Nextgrid 5y agoI am impressed that they managed to get human support and they made the sensible decision.
- necovek 5y agoSorry, it sounded as if they managed to do that in the regular way you've got to do that with FB/Google/...: they made the issue as public as possible before somebody reacted to that publicity. Should have made that clear, even though I said that it was just like any other automated action by those actors :)
- King-Aaron 5y agoI find it odd that in a story about a name being flagged for copyright infringement (wrongly, obviously), they also chose to throw in the comments about 'tech bros in silicon valley', 'women in tech/of color (being discriminated against)' etc.. Which seemed off to me. I don't think these points had anything to do with her account being automatically flagged.
- gladinovax 5y agoI bet your comment gets flagged...
- DarthNebo 5y agoDocumenting your digital presence across platforms is the only way to get back with enough proof, if in the future a billion dollar company decides to launch a product with similar names. I'm feverishly awaiting the outcome for the Meta company[ https://meta.company https://meta.company ] case against FB's Meta.