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This is the 3rd time I'm going after Meta products in three weeks, because it appears @thexylom.com's recent story about mushroom researchers in Kyiv, Ukraine, has been shadowbanned by Instagram: There is no way we're only getting 31 non-follower views in 17 hours: www.instagram.com/p/Dcx6UAwms8z/

Views over time 
Non-followers

This post: 31
Your typical post: in the hundreds

Views: 489
Instagram: 482
Facebook: 7


Top sources of views

Feed: 80.9%
Stories: 15.6%
Profile: 0.8%
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2w ago

This is probably a big ask, but if you're still on Instagram, can you help @thexylom.com get to, say, 2,500 followers? Our account serves an audience (40% outside of the U.S., 59% between ages 18-34) complementary to what we have here, but we've had a tough time breaking through Meta's algorithms:

Any sweeping systemic change you want to make in the United States has to begin with adding seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. No major reform bill will survive the current court. No civil rights law, no anti-corruption law, no wealth tax, nothing.

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: what newsss Rowling: tell the dark lord of your accomplishmentsss Graham Linehan: i have something to report Linehan: they put it in the newspaper that i got mad! Rowling: who put in in the newsspaper? Linehan: i did!