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.
