Some users on Instagram say they are getting "action blocked" messages when they try to post about Black Lives Matter amid the George Floyd protests across the United States.
hello! @instagram
i'm getting this "action blocked" error. i've reported this problem but got no response. it was my new account(https://t.co/u6KhV9cTno) and i was following all the guide line of ig but still got blocked.
please fix it asap. pic.twitter.com/Kqge2GUrQg
— Santosh Kumar (@FuxNoob) June 2, 2020
The social media company said that a lot of people are using the phrase; it automatically triggered their anti-spam technology and hid the posts.
"We're aware that some people are incorrectly running into 'action blocked' messages when using the hashtag #blacklivesmatter, or resharing related posts," Instagram said in a tweet. "We have technology that detects rapidly increasing activity on Instagram to help combat spam."
2/ Given the increase in content shared to #blacklivesmatter, this technology is incorrectly coming into effect. We are resolving this issue as quickly as we can, and investigating a separate issue uploading Stories.
— Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) June 1, 2020
The company says they are trying to remedy that issue as quickly as they can.
