American photo and video sharing social networking service, Instagram has apologized to Nigerians for incorrectly flagging down posts in support of #EndSARS as “false information.”
During the week, several Instagram users took to their respective accounts to react in anger after their posts aimed at spreading awareness about the #EndSARS campaign were flagged down as “false information.”
Instagram is flagging all #EndSARS & #LekkiMassacre posts as False information!!!!
Mark Zuckerberg is canceled!!!
#LagosStateMassacre— RERE OF CANADA? ?? (@rereayodele) October 21, 2020
In a statement released via their Twitter page, the ‘facebook-owned’ social media platform admitted that they incorrectly flagged down posts in support of #EndSARS and apologised to Nigerians for the error.
The statement read:
“Yesterday our systems were incorrectly flagging content in support of #EndSARS, and marking posts as false. We are deeply sorry for this. The issue has now been resolved, and we apologize for letting our community down in such a time of need.”
Yesterday our systems were incorrectly flagging content in support of #EndSARS, and marking posts as false. We are deeply sorry for this. The issue has now been resolved, and we apologize for letting our community down in such a time of need.
— Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) October 22, 2020
