Admins Group Facebook complains about a collective ban – Meta says it defines the problem

After a wave of A group ban that affects Instagram and Facebook Users both, Meta users now complain that Facebook groups are also affected by the collective comment. According to individual and organized complaints Efforts on sites like reddit To share information, the ban on thousands of groups in the United States and abroad affected and various categories spanned.

When it was reached for the comment, Meta andy Stone confirmed that the company was familiar with this issue and is working to correct it.

“We are aware of a technical mistake that affected some Facebook groups. We are now fixing things,” he told Techcrunch in a statement sent by email.

The cause of the mass ban is not yet known, although many doubts that the moderation dependent on artificial intelligence can be responsible.

Depending on the information that affected users shared, many of the hanging Facebook groups will face moderation concerns regularly, focusing on somewhat harmless content such as savings tips or deals, paternity and motherhood support, group owners or cat owners, gaming groups, Pokemon groups, collections for mechanical keyboard lovers, and more.

A report by the Facebook group, a report that receives notifications of mysterious violations related to things such as content or nudity “related to terrorism”, which they claim did not publish their groups.

While some affected groups are smaller in size, many of them are large, with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even Millions of users.

Those who organized to share tips about the problem are advice to others not to resume banning their group, but waiting for a few days to see if the suspension was reflected automatically when fixing errors.

Currently, Reddit Community on Facebook (R/Facebook) He is Filled with Pillars from group Officials And users from We are angry on the recently disinfection. Some reporting that All the groups they run It was removed once. Some people are incredible about supposed violations – like a set of bird pictures with less than a million users Get signs for nudity.

Others claim that their collections were already under risk against random mail-such as a Family friend Pokemon With nearly 200,000 members, he received a violation that their address referred to “dangerous organizations” or Interior design collection that served millionsThat receives the same violation.

At least, some of the directors of the Facebook group who are verified, which includes priority customer support, managed to help. However, others stated that their groups were suspended or completely deleted.

It is not clear whether the problem is related to the last wave of the ban Impact on definition users As individuals, but this seems to be an increasing problem across social networks.

In addition to Facebook and Instagram, social networks such as Pinterest and Tumblr have faced complaints about collective pendants in recent weeks, prompting users to doubt that the AI-Actomated Adration efforts are responsible.

Pinterest admitted at least his mistake, saying that the collective ban was due IndoorBut it denied that artificial intelligence is the issue. Tumblr said its issues It was linked to the tests of the new content filtering system, but did not explain whether this system involved artificial intelligence.

When asked last week about Instagram banHe refused to comment. Users now Wide trading This has received more than 12,380 signatures so far, as Meta has been asked to address the problem. I am freeIncluding those whose work was affected, they are tracking Legal procedure.

Meta still has not yet participated the cause of the problem with individual accounts or groups.