The anti-Trump movement’s account was suspended for around 90 minutes in the middle of a day of protests: according to Meta, a tool powered by Claude was accessing it four times faster than a human would.
On Saturday, October 17, when the No Kings coalition — which brought together hundreds of organizations, including Indivisible, Common Cause and ACLU — coordinated nearly 3,000 events across the United States, its Instagram account was suddenly suspended. It was restored at approximately 5:33 p.m. Eastern time, approximately one and a half hours later, with full access to the administrators only restored at the end of the day.
Traffic deemed "non-human"
The next day, Andy Stone, Meta's Vice President for Communication, provided an explanation: a tool linked to Claude, Anthropic's AI, accessed the coalition profiles by intense gusts, at a rate about four times higher than that of a person. This behaviour triggered automatic bot detection systems before an automated review concluded an error in less than an hour. Meta renewed her apology; the article does not report any reaction of Anthropic.
The episode falls badly: it occurs in the midst of the campaign of listing and early voting before the mid-term elections of 3 November. Above all, it illustrates a growing problem — legitimate accounts that entrust part of their management to AI agents may be confused with malicious robots by platform defenses.
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