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THREAD: Here’s the story of @homegrownterrorists on Instagram.
If anyone has a direct email to someone at @Instagram who can help get our account back, please DM.
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On Wednesday, that colleague sent me a Slack message: “Not to freak you out, but…”
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They left despicable comments like, “That’s Breonna Taylor,” “that’s George Floyd,” “that’s Anne Frank,” and so on. Many also said “Samuel Hyde,” which I still don’t understand.
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I figured out how to only allow comments from followers, figuring they would stop. I also set a filter to block comments using the names they were posting.
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When I woke up at 8 a.m. on Thursday, there were 2,000.
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Or geolocation?
I archived posts.
These terrorists broke into the Capitol Building. They could break into my house.
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I set the account to private get sorted and to hopefully get a better night’s sleep. (I didn’t.)
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My account started showing these pop-ups on every page I opened in the Instagram app, including DMs — which were flooding in by the second.
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I freaked out more. Is what I’m doing illegal?
Others at IG told me, “The FBI is involved. You’re not doing anything wrong. In fact, your probably safer.”
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He suggested I get a temporary therapist to reveal all this to. (Not a bad idea! 😂)
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Welp, when I went to log back in... @Instagram locked me out. I am still unable to reactivate @homegrownterrorists, despite what IG says.
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I set up a new backup, which is still live at https://t.co/PtSWBp655z.
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I still am locked out.
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There are thousands of DMs with tips sitting in the accounts that cannot be recovered, it seems.
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“We aren’t seeing anything on our end that could be causing this. It might be helpful…to download the latest version of the app. The account is unavailable, confirming IG didn’t remove the account.”
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If you’ve got a contact at @instagram, gimme a shout in the DMs.
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Hey, @instagram. \U0001f44b
— @HomegrownTerrorists (@OutTerrorists) January 9, 2021
Can you please recover my accounts, @HomegrownTerrorists and @OutTerrorists, and help me to hand them off to @FBI/@FBIWFO?
There are hundreds to thousands of DMs.
cc: @Facebook
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