Erin Napier (left) and a screenshot of the failed post she shared to her Instagram Story (right).Photo:Manny Carabel/Getty; Erin Napier/Instagram
Manny Carabel/Getty; Erin Napier/Instagram
Erin Napieris speaking up about a topic she’s passionate about.
After founding her organizationOsprey (Old School Parents Raising Engaged Youth)in 2023, theHome Townstar and her husbandBenhosted their first-everOsprey Festivalin Laurel, Mississippi, on Saturday.
The fun-filled day offered several “old school” activities and workshops for families to enjoy in light of the organization’s mission — to unite families who value a social media-free upbringing for their kids.
Erin Napier’s Instagram Story on Sunday.Erin Napier/Instagram
Erin Napier/Instagram
“Something really weird happened,” she wrote on her Instagram Story on Sunday.
The next slide shows a “Try Again Later” error message popping up on someone’s phone after they attempted to post an image from the festival and tag both Erin and Ben in it.
She then leaves her followers with an important question.
“If the ways big tech is censoring good causes doesn’t worry you, it should. you may not hear from us much anymore because they don’t want you to,” she wrote. The next few slides are more screenshots of messages she received from people telling her old posts that she and Ben were tagged in were also being removed from Facebook and Instagram.
Meta did not yet respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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“It gets suppressed. Posts get a tiny fraction of the views that my usual posts do, which is disturbing,” she told PEOPLE earlier in March. “I think social media should be the adult town square for sharing information. But if you’re only able to share selective information, that’s scary.”
source: people.com
