Trump wanted to give No Kings no air. Then, Meta suspended its Instagram.

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Over the weekend, the No Kings Coalition said Meta declined to commit to taking steps to prevent automated systems from suspending one of Instagram’s most prominent pro-democracy accounts if activity surged around the page during the midterm elections. A demand for action came after Meta apologized for temporarily suspending the No Kings Instagram account and disabling access for four hours at the peak of an early voting push from the group.

上周末，“无王联盟”（No Kings Coalition）表示，Meta 拒绝承诺采取措施，以防止其自动化系统在期中选举期间因页面活动激增而封禁该平台上最著名的亲民主账户之一。此前，Meta 曾因暂时封禁“无王联盟”的 Instagram 账户并导致其在早期投票推动活动的高峰期中断访问四小时而道歉，该联盟随后提出了采取行动的要求。

In a post on X, Meta’s Andy Stone said the account had been using a Claude AI tool in a way that made it appear to be a bot. But even though automated review detected the error within an hour, Stone acknowledged that additional hurdles kept admins locked out. State and federal lawmakers—as well as a coalition of 14 attorneys general—have asked Meta to further explain its actions.

Meta 的安迪·斯通（Andy Stone）在 X 上发文称，该账户使用 Claude AI 工具的方式使其看起来像是一个机器人。尽管自动化审查在一小时内就发现了错误，但斯通承认，额外的障碍导致管理员仍无法登录。州和联邦立法者以及由 14 位总检察长组成的联盟已要求 Meta 对其行为做出进一步解释。

In a letter to No Kings, Meta offered to arrange a meeting with a technical expert who could better explain the mistake. But No Kings rejected the response, saying it failed to address any of the group’s ongoing concerns and requesting a meeting with Meta senior leadership instead. The group stressed that the issue goes beyond its Instagram account, saying that Americans who rely on Meta’s platforms need assurance that voting content won’t be suppressed ahead of or on election day.

在给“无王联盟”的一封信中，Meta 提议安排一位技术专家进行会面，以便更好地解释这一失误。但“无王联盟”拒绝了这一回应，称其未能解决该组织的任何持续关切，并要求与 Meta 高层领导会面。该组织强调，问题不仅限于其 Instagram 账户，并表示依赖 Meta 平台的美国人需要得到保证，即投票相关内容不会在选举日前夕或选举日当天被压制。

Among eight questions, the coalition asked Meta to publicly disclose any communications with the Trump administration about the No Kings account or the historic early voting day event. On October 30, Meta executives met with No Kings. According to the coalition’s account of the meeting, Meta said it has “no plans” to change policies that lead to harmful over-enforcement, a problem that even the independent Oversight Board, which reviews Meta’s content decisions, worries could result in suppression or censorship of No Kings and other pro-democracy content during this critical period.

该联盟提出了八个问题，要求 Meta 公开披露其与特朗普政府之间关于“无王联盟”账户或历史性早期投票日活动的任何沟通。10 月 30 日，Meta 高管与“无王联盟”进行了会面。根据该联盟对会议的描述，Meta 表示“没有计划”改变导致有害过度执法的政策。即使是负责审查 Meta 内容决策的独立监督委员会也担心，在这一关键时期，该问题可能导致“无王联盟”及其他亲民主内容被压制或审查。

“Meta acknowledged that it made a mistake, but an apology without action does nothing to ensure that this kind of censorship won’t happen again,” No Kings said, calling Meta’s laissez-faire attitude “unacceptable.” Ars has found no evidence that the Trump administration asked Meta to restrict the No Kings account or that anyone at Meta intentionally targeted the account for political reasons.

“Meta 承认犯了错误，但没有行动的道歉无法确保此类审查不会再次发生，”无王联盟表示，并称 Meta 的自由放任态度是“不可接受的”。Ars 未发现任何证据表明特朗普政府曾要求 Meta 限制“无王联盟”账户，也未发现 Meta 内部有人出于政治原因故意针对该账户。

Meta told No Kings that it planned to post a public reply to the coalition’s demands, but the company did not respond to Ars’ request for comment, and Stone has yet to post an update on X. His account did, however, apologize for another accidental enforcement action impacting a Republican-controlled account the day before the No Kings meeting. “We automatically removed the @MOSenateGOP Facebook account because our systems mistakenly assessed the account was impersonating another one,” Stone said.

Meta 告诉“无王联盟”，它计划就该联盟的要求发布公开回复，但该公司未回应 Ars 的置评请求，斯通也尚未在 X 上发布更新。不过，他的账户确实在“无王联盟”会议的前一天，为另一起影响共和党控制账户的意外执法行动道歉。“我们自动移除了 @MOSenateGOP Facebook 账户，因为我们的系统错误地评估该账户在冒充他人，”斯通说。

“This was never simply about a technical glitch or one Instagram account,” No Kings’ press release said. “It’s about whether millions of Americans can rely on these platforms to organize, communicate, and access critical voting information without disruption.” Meta’s AI explanation seems incomplete.

“这从来不仅仅是一个技术故障或一个 Instagram 账户的问题，”无王联盟的新闻稿称。“这关乎数百万美国人能否依赖这些平台进行组织、沟通并获取关键的投票信息而不受干扰。”Meta 对 AI 的解释似乎并不完整。

Formed in 2025 after Donald Trump returned to office for a second term, the No Kings Coalition is best known for organizing some of the largest coordinated protests in recent US history. Using social media channels to coordinate nationwide demonstrations against Trump policies viewed as anti-democratic, organizers estimated that more than 5 million people participated in its first protests in June 2025 and say attendance has only increased since.

“无王联盟”成立于 2025 年唐纳德·特朗普开启第二个任期之后，以组织美国近代史上一些最大规模的协调抗议活动而闻名。组织者利用社交媒体渠道协调全国范围内的示威活动，以反对被视为反民主的特朗普政策。据估计，2025 年 6 月的首次抗议活动有超过 500 万人参加，且此后的参与人数一直在增加。

No Kings estimates 7 million people attended the second protests in October 2025, and more than 8 million showed up for the third demonstration last March. For the fourth event, however, No Kings sought to get more than 9 million people into the streets, and then directly to the polls, by organizing an early voting event on October 17. Unlike the family-friendly protests where Americans held up signs demanding “No Kings in America,” this event focused on driving voter turnout.

“无王联盟”估计，2025 年 10 月的第二次抗议活动有 700 万人参加，去年 3 月的第三次示威活动有超过 800 万人参加。然而，对于第四次活动，“无王联盟”试图通过组织 10 月 17 日的早期投票活动，让超过 900 万人走上街头，并直接前往投票站。与那些美国人举着要求“美国无王”标语的家庭友好型抗议活动不同，这次活动专注于提高选民投票率。

Although No Kings describes itself as a pro-democracy coalition with no interest in building up the Democratic Party, turnout for its events is driven by those who oppose Trump’s most controversial policies—including domestic ICE enforcement and US military involvement in Iran. Hundreds of civil rights organizations, including Black Voters Matter and the American Civil Liberties Union, make up the No Kings Coalition.

尽管“无王联盟”自称是一个亲民主联盟，对扶持民主党没有兴趣，但其活动的参与者主要是那些反对特朗普最具争议政策的人——包括国内的移民及海关执法局（ICE）执法行动以及美国在伊朗的军事介入。包括“黑人选民至关重要”（Black Voters Matter）和美国公民自由联盟（ACLU）在内的数百个民权组织构成了“无王联盟”。

Initially, there was no centralized Instagram account where the groups could coordinate their social media messaging. But as the November 3 election approached, the coalition got more organized, hoping that an official No Kings account with a large following would help it identify and amplify content ahead of the fourth event. That’s when No Kings decided to use Claude as a “keyword and hashtag search tool to track conversations across social media platforms,” the group’s social media team told Ars.

起初，并没有一个集中的 Instagram 账户供这些团体协调其社交媒体信息。但随着 11 月 3 日选举的临近，该联盟变得更加有组织，希望一个拥有大量粉丝的官方“无王联盟”账户能帮助其在第四次活动前识别并放大内容。该组织的社交媒体团队告诉 Ars，就在那时，“无王联盟”决定使用 Claude 作为“关键词和标签搜索工具，以追踪跨社交媒体平台的对话”。

According to Stone, the Claude tool was “reading profiles, posts, and hashtags,” which “sharply” increased the account’s activity in “intense bursts” that “resembled automated bot traffic rather than an ordinary human browsing our systems.” Ars could not determine what specific Claude-powered tool the coalition was using, how it accessed Instagram, or whether it was an Anthropic service or a third-party integration built using Claude.

据斯通称，Claude 工具当时正在“读取个人资料、帖子和标签”，这导致账户活动在“剧烈爆发”中“急剧”增加，其表现“类似于自动机器人流量，而非普通人类在浏览我们的系统”。Ars 无法确定该联盟具体使用了哪种基于 Claude 的工具，它是如何访问 Instagram 的，或者它是 Anthropic 的服务还是使用 Claude 构建的第三方集成。

Ars asked both Anthropic and Meta whether there was anything unusual about the way No Kings was using Claude, but neither company responded. Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, a progressive nonprofit in the No Kings Coalition, told Ars that the volume of posting increases because organizers understand a basic principle of advertising: “You’ve got to reach people seven different times in seven different ways, and it’s the seventh time that they hear,

Ars 分别询问了 Anthropic 和 Meta，“无王联盟”使用 Claude 的方式是否存在异常，但两家公司均未回应。“无王联盟”成员、进步非营利组织 Indivisible 的联合创始人埃兹拉·莱文（Ezra Levin）告诉 Ars，发帖量增加是因为组织者理解广告的一个基本原则：“你必须通过七种不同的方式接触人们七次，而当他们第七次听到时……”