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Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign and is now backtracking on its excuses

Paul Walsh examines Meta's 17 October 2026 suspension of the No Kings Coalition's Instagram account during a nationwide early-voting campaign, Meta's shifting explanations (first excessive posting, then Claude-based software reading Instagram at four times the normal rate), and sets out detailed questions and records Meta should produce to show the suspension was an innocent automated error.

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