Meta Meltdown
Thousands of Taiwanese KOLs face “indiscriminate blocking” on Meta platforms, prompting 3,300 victims to organize.
For thousands of Taiwanese KOLs, news anchors, film critics, and influencers across Meta platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Threads in recent months it has been, well, a meta mess. The multinational’s anti-fraud mechanisms since May have triggered what many have called “indiscriminate blocking” (無差別封鎖), prompting more than 3,300 victims to form a chat group on LINE, a popular Japanese social messaging app, called “Facebook Account Rights Protection Group” (臉書帳號維權群). According to media reports, about 70 percent of suspended accounts in Taiwan were paid blue-check subscribers who lost years of content overnight.
Lingua Sinica is an interactive online resource under the China Media Project (CMP) that explores the capacity and sustainability of Chinese-language media environments globally in their full domestic context and traces the lines of impact and engagement by PRC media and institutions.
