Why is ‘Adam Driver Megalopolis’ blocked in Instagram searches?

When individuals seek for “Adam driver Megalopolis” on Instagram or Fb proper now, as an alternative of seeing posts about Francis Ford Coppola’s newest movie, they’re proven a warning, titled, “Baby sexual abuse is against the law.”

That weird reality was identified in a put up on X yesterday, and as of at present, I’m nonetheless seeing it once I seek for the phrase. However why? Properly, it doesn’t appear to have something to do with current Threads moderation failures. Nor are there bombshell revelations about Megalopolis or its major star that I’m conscious of.

As a substitute, Fb and Instagram appear to be blocking searches containing “mega” and “drive” — I noticed it once I searched with these two phrases collectively, however not once I looked for “Megalopolis,” “Adam Driver,” or both time period blended with any others. The difficulty isn’t new, both, as this nine-month-old Reddit put up about looking for “Sega mega drive” on Fb illustrates. (That search appears to work as anticipated, now.)

It’s not clear why the phrases are blocked and Meta didn’t instantly reply once we requested. Fb and Instagram have blocked different innocuous-seeming phrases, resembling “hen soup,” as a result of distributors of kid abuse supplies use it as a part of their coded language to evade detection on the platforms.