When individuals seek for “Adam driver Megalopolis” on Instagram or Fb proper now, as a substitute of seeing posts about Francis Ford Coppola’s newest movie, they’re proven a warning, titled, “Baby sexual abuse is against the law.”
That weird reality was identified in a submit on X yesterday, and as of immediately, I’m nonetheless seeing it after I seek for the phrase. However why? Effectively, it doesn’t appear to have something to do with current Threads moderation failures. Nor are there bombshell revelations about Megalopolis or its primary star that I’m conscious of.
As a substitute, Fb and Instagram appear to be blocking searches containing “mega” and “drive” — I noticed it after I searched with these two phrases collectively, however not after I looked for “Megalopolis,” “Adam Driver,” or both time period combined with any others. The difficulty isn’t new, both, as this nine-month-old Reddit submit about looking for “Sega mega drive” on Fb illustrates. (That search appears to work as anticipated, now.)
It’s not clear why the phrases are blocked and Meta didn’t instantly reply after we requested. Fb and Instagram have blocked different innocuous-seeming phrases, resembling “hen soup,” as a result of distributors of kid abuse supplies use it as a part of their coded language to evade detection on the platforms.
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