The curator has been permanently banned! He appeals to the public for high-profile attention!
The Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts of the curator Chen Zhihan have recently been permanently suspended by platforms due to alleged violations of community guidelines. He expressed distress over this situation and called on the public for assistance in drawing widespread attention.
Recently, numerous political figures and media personalities in Taiwan have had their Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts suspended—spanning both the Blue and Green camps, including well-known commentators such as Dr. Su Yifeng, who frequently criticizes the Green camp. The curator is among those affected. Even the Facebook page of the Green-leaning media outlet Minshih was briefly blocked. The stated reason for these suspensions was nearly identical: "under the age of thirteen"—a seemingly absurd justification.
Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all subsidiaries of Meta. The accounts across these three platforms are highly interconnected; once the primary account is restricted, linked sub-accounts are automatically restricted as well.
As of now, Meta has not provided any official response regarding whether this round of suspensions was due to deliberate moderation or a technical malfunction.
Some analysts believe that Meta has recently intensified efforts to crack down on mass-manipulated accounts used to influence public opinion, maliciously incite division, and repeatedly disseminate extreme content through coordinated networks. In the context of Taiwan’s elections and social issues, a large number of batch-created micro-accounts have emerged to drive narratives. AI systems detect uniform messaging patterns across multiple accounts, scheduled bulk posting, and then uniformly suspend them. This detection standard is applied globally and is not specifically targeted at any region. However, due to the high density of online voices in Taiwan, users perceive the account suspensions as particularly frequent and severe.
Yet under tightened review standards for Traditional Chinese-language AI content, many legitimate accounts are inevitably caught in the crossfire. If temporary, widespread, collective suspensions occurred only occasionally, it might be attributed to technical glitches. But ongoing, continuous account deactivations today clearly go beyond mere system errors.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1868066781970560/
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