I finally got a shadowban lifted after two weeks of back and forth

Last month, my account on a major video site got hit with a shadowban for posting a clip from a city council meeting in Austin. The clip showed a public official making a statement, and the platform flagged it as 'harmful misinformation' with no specific reason. I filed an appeal, but the auto-reply just said my content violated community guidelines. I kept replying to the ticket every single day, pointing out it was a public record. After 14 days, I got a human response that simply said 'restored' with no apology. What's the longest you've had to fight a wrongful takedown?

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the_max1mo ago

Wait, a clip from an actual city council meeting got flagged as misinformation? That's a public record, like a government document. It's not some random rumor. The fact you had to argue for two weeks to get a bot to understand basic reality is just wild to me. What happens when it's something more important than a meeting clip?

shanewells1mo ago

Man, that's brutal. I used to just accept these takedowns as a cost of posting online. Seeing a legit public record get flagged like that, and the fight you had to put up, really changed my view. Two weeks of daily pestering for a one word fix is insane. My longest was a week over a dumb meme they said was bullying.

pat_park1mo ago

It's like dealing with a bad customer service bot that controls what we can see. This stuff is everywhere now, not just online.