Why Instagram ‘suspended’ Tunde Ednut’s account again

By Alao Abiodun

Controversial movie star blogger Tunde Ednut had his Instagram account suspended for the second time on Wednesday.

This suspension is coming three days after he attained a million followers on the platform.

The Nation had reported on December 22, 2020, his account (@tundeednut), which had almost 2.6 million followers, was suspended ‘indefinitely’ over claims that it violated the app’s phrases and situations.

On January 10, he rejoined the platform with one other deal with (@kingtundeednut) and in lower than three days raked in over 1 million followers as a result of overwhelming assist from some Nigerian celebrities and entertainers.

Earlier than his account acquired suspended, as on the early hours of Wednesday, when he gathered one million followers, he did a N1million ‘giveaway’.

The Nation learnt that Ednut’s second suspension got here on the again of claims he had put out a sequence of posts, which allegedly bordered on degrading and body-shaming ladies, cyberbullying fellow celebrities and interesting in spamming actions that went towards Instagram’s insurance policies.

Instagram in its ‘account disable coverage’ acknowledged: “We disable accounts which have a sure share of violating content material. We are actually rolling out a brand new coverage the place, along with eradicating accounts with a sure share of violating content material, we can even take away accounts with a sure variety of violations inside a window of time.

“Equally, to how insurance policies are enforced on Fb, this variation will enable us to implement our insurance policies extra constantly and maintain individuals accountable for what they put up on Instagram.”