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What happens when you lose your social media?

Author
BBC World Service
Published
Tue 26 Aug 2025
Episode Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6zp5

For months, we have been hearing from people all over the world who say they have been unfairly banned from their Facebook and Instagram accounts. Meta has, so far, said nothing publicly about what’s going on. Plus, we chart the rise and fall of an American tech giant, and the author of Empire of AI, Karen Hao, tells us what she thinks the industry gets wrong.

Presenter: Shiona McCallum
Producer: Imran Rahman-Jones
Editor: Monica Soriano

(Image: An illustration of a mobile phone with barbed wire surrounding it. Credit: Getty Images)

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