Meta Wiped Her Accounts Overnight. The Chatbot Was the Bigger Problem.
A Toronto resident, Jasmine Ault, says Meta disabled her accounts overnight without giving her a reason, and that she has been unable to get past the company's AI chatbots to speak to a human about the error. The CBC reports that experts say this will keep happening without regulation enforcing a right to speak to a human. Whatever you think of the specific case, that's the design question worth arguing about: automated enforcement plus automated appeals leaves no path for the person on the wrong end of a mistake to contest it.
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The interesting part isn't that an automated system made a wrong call — it's that the appeal route is also automated. A right to reach a human is a strange-sounding thing to legislate until you try to contest a decision that only a machine will explain to you.
A human on the line is worth having, but it doesn't fix the underlying gap: the account was disabled without a stated reason. Getting a person to repeat 'we can't tell you why' is still a dead end, just a politer one.