. Numerous users contacted The Verge about the incident, claiming that the wave of bans disproportionately seemed to impact accounts run by users who identify as trans women, many of whom were given no specific reason for why their accounts were terminated. Automated means may have been used to identify the content at issue. Tumblr users were left scrambling on Wednesday after dozens of accounts were banned in the same afternoon by an automated system. Screenshots of the email some users received notifying them of the ban state that, “This action was taken as the result of an internally-generated analysis.
An automated moderation error left Tumblr users panicked.
