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We would like to draw attention to the comicality of these steps which have now pushed our movement, which itself is in a nascent stage, to the edge of complete takedown. However, your dysfuctional AI - and Community Guidelines reviewers - have flagged two of our posts for “dangerous and violent groups” and “nudity and sexual activity”. “We have been engaging in public philosophy, satirising all authoritative icons, from Modi to Putin to Uncle Sam. The administrators of wrote to Guy Rosen, the vice-president of Integrity at Meta, about two specific posts being taken down with fair reason. attempt to support Sethi and amplify her voice did not go down well with the platform, however, which chose to take down the post. She was satirising an oversexualised direct message she had received, about the sale of sexual services. One of the other posts removed from page, in April this year, was a screenshot of a story shared by Instagram influencer Harjas Sethi, who has a verified account on the platform. The publicly available information on the company’s website also does not detail the process followed before a post is taken down. The guidelines, however, do not lay down whether or how content will be managed differently when produced satirically, or perhaps in support of those who have faced sexually abusive messages and wish to make their complaints public. Instagram’s community guidelines focus on creating a “safe and open environment”. Since one of the recent posts removed is also of that kind, the administrators are worried that older posts may too be flagged, perhaps leading to the entire account being taken down. In the past, has posted several memes comparing the Hindu Right in India with Nazi Germany. No further communication has been received after this from either Meta or the PR company this article will be updated if they respond. While Meta has not responded, The Wire did receive an email from an employee of the PR agency Weber Shandwick, asking for the post in question to be re-attached. The Wire reached out Meta with questions about the Maurya post takedown in particular and the methods used for such decisions in general. All the action, they said, happened within a few minutes of a post going up – raising questions on whether there was any actual oversight involved, or if an algorithm was taking spot decisions based on criteria that may not always be valid. In an e-mail to The Wire, the administrators behind this satirical account – referring to themselves as a group of academics and journalists choosing to remain anonymous – questioned the speed with which these posts were taken down. The takedown notification for the post on Prabhakar Maurya. There is no nudity, nor any sexual activity, in this video – it portrays Maurya doing aarti to an idol of the chief minister, both fully clothed. This video, according to the notification received when it was taken down, violated Instagram’s ‘sexual activity and nudity’ restrictions. The most recent of these removals took place when Instagram flagged a video posted by of Prabhakar Maurya, a resident of Ayodhya, worshipping an idol of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath at a temple built specifically for this purpose. This, the administrators say, has been a conscious decision – because many of their posts are critical of the Hindu Right and the current regime.

Many of the page’s posts make academic references and are written in ways that would not be easy for all audiences to understand.

#Meta oversight board archive#

They were all posted to Instagram by a group calling themselves ‘Superhumans’ Archive of Cringetopia’, who run a page called And they were all removed by Instagram, citing violations of the company’s guidelines. The posts in question – and three others – have two things in common.

A post criticising Meta’s post-removal policies. A post ridiculing the VFX company behind Brahmastra. A post making fun of a temple built for Yogi Adityanath.

New Delhi: A satirical post on Adolf Hitler.