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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

Heroines, not heroin: charity’s Facebook page returns after AI flagged it for drugs

A picture of Meta signage.
The Gloucestershire-based organisation has seen its Facebook group removed twice this year for alleged breaches of community guidelines. Photograph: John G Mabanglo/EPA

When the UK charity Hundred Heroines had its Facebook group taken down it was accompanied by a message from the social media company that simply said the page “goes against our community standards on drugs”.

Now, after more than a month of appealing, the photography charity is celebrating the reinstatement of its group after the tech company’s AI tools mistook it for an organisation promoting the class-A opioid heroin.

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