diff --git a/locale/en/blog/meta-ban.md b/locale/en/blog/meta-ban.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3b7904e94 --- /dev/null +++ b/locale/en/blog/meta-ban.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Instagram and Facebook ban pronouns.page links 🙄 + +2023-03-27 | [@andrea](/@andrea) + +![Screenshot of the ban message with text: Links to be removed: pronouns.page. We remove links with: – spam; – Support or praise of terrorism, organised crime, or hate groups; – solicitation of sexual services; – sale of firearms and drugs](/img-local/blog/instagram-ban.png) + +On Sunday, March 26th, we were made aware that Instagram and Facebook started blocking links to pronouns.page and requiring users to remove them from their profile. + +We're saddened and annoyed by the situation. Our portal definitely has nothing to do with spam, terrorism, crime, hate groups, sexual services, firearms, or drugs. +Such accusations are obviously absurd. Our [Terms of Service](/terms) are clear and we work tirelessly to moderate content that doesn't follow the rules. + +But at this point we don’t have any reasons to believe that this ban was intentional or queerphobic – +it’s likely that their bot stumbled upon a card with dubious content that hadn’t yet gotten banned by our moderators, +and then automatically marked the whole domain as suspicious. +Especially since our other domains (zaimki.pl, pronoms.fr and pronombr.es) seem to be unaffected. + +We’ve already filed a complaint through [Meta’s Sharing Debugger](https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fpronouns.page), +now we just have to wait for a human to review and fix the bot's mistake. diff --git a/locale/en/img/blog/instagram-ban.png b/locale/en/img/blog/instagram-ban.png new file mode 100644 index 000000000..da8b2c878 Binary files /dev/null and b/locale/en/img/blog/instagram-ban.png differ