Meteorologist blocked from posting hurricane updates on Instagram

[struggle4progress]

WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando
Sep 2, 2025

WKMG Chief Meteorologist Candace Campos tried to post a reel about the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast for the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane season. Instead, the post was removed.

Real intelligence is so 2024!

[flvegan]

1. Why was it removed?

Not clicking the YouTube link to find out.

[2naSalit]

4. AI did it.

And has done it to many and fucked their businesses over with no customer service and no access to contact anyone yet meta keeps charging their accounts while they have waited months for a response. The news channel also tried to contact them and they are still waiting too.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. 3 months ago, they labelled her post about the hurricane season as "spam"

She requested a review; the automated reply said they'd respond "soon"; they still haven't. It seems to be AI making crappy decisions, and Meta doesn't employ enough humans to check or review the results (many others have similar experiences).

Whether it's just crappy tech, or if they've tweaked their AI to suck up to climate change denier Trump, who knows? They've decided they don't need to reply.

[Orrex]

16. Um

[Prairie_Seagull]

20. Um, what?

[Dave Bowman]

2. Hurricanes? There's no such thing as a hurricanes!!1

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Just one reason among many why I've turned my back on social media

I believe an algorithm may have picked up on something so innocuous as ‘damage’ or some other word in her report on hurricanes that was construed as ‘violence’. More likely, it’s the phrase ‘climate change’ whut dunnit.

Meanwhile, some basement-dweller could co-opt her image and voice to create a naughty and/or subservient bot, which would probably fly below the AI radar.

[ZDU]

8. scourge

social media is a scourge

[EYESORE 9001]

9. Good term for it

It will prove far more detrimental to humanity than any achievements that come from it.

[ZDU]

12. Hear, hear!

in full agreement!

[Karasu]

22. Yep. Called that back when Facebook was first released. I thought it was VERY clear that the number of "cons" outweighed

any potential "pros" of social media by a massive margin.

Much to my disappointment (but not my surprise), most of the world failed to see that.

[EYESORE 9001]

26. In the days before the World Wide Web was up & running

people thought I had already slid into some cyber hole because I availed myself of the tools I had available, locating files by incredibly byzantine and time-consuming means, establishing connections with researchers around the world, and exploring a new frontier. As time passed and social media platforms gained popularity, I was appalled at how much commercialism had corrupted it. I deleted it all eventually, keeping only a mere whisp of an online presence so I don’t miss birthdays.

[ananda]

14. Oh I get it... the deleter is AI and programmed against climate change.

That explains it.

This country is SO fucked!

[EYESORE 9001]

17. Perhaps it was 'rising sea levels'

Bot is a real snowflake

[ananda]

24. Perhaps Florida will be the first to go under.

Hmmm

[GiqueCee]

6. the recent photos...

... of all the tech bros – including Zuckerschmuck – enjoying dinner with Trump, could not see below the tablecloth to show the gold-painted knee pads they were issued at the door in anticipation of after-dinner... um, festivities. Yeah, let's go with festivities.

[rubbersole]

19. Before dinner.

Or you'd have to buy Melania Money bitcoins.🪙

[Blue Full Moon]

10. It does it for posting news stories it doesn't like. Supposed to be AI.

[Sogo]

11. What city and state is this from?

[markodochartaigh]

18. WKMG is a station in Orlando.

Orlando is a major city in the US state of Florida. Orlando is chiefly known for it very large amusement parks such as Disney World.

[Hekate]

21. And hurricanes

[Coventina]

13. I dumped Instagram. It was my only social media besides DU

I dumped them after they repeatedly told me that the n-word did not violate their community standards.

[Ilsa]

23. Is there an "Alt NOAA" site online?

Alternate Meteorology or something without a .gov extension. Maybe funds could be raised monthly on a very limited basis to pay for it a month at a time.

I guess DeSatan wants them dead: no warnings, no vaccines, no FEMA, just die. I guess the National Guard will roll by calling out, "Bring out your dead!"

[PCB66]

25. There is a potential peak season hurricane forming in the Atlantic now

We are getting daily updates out of the Tampa stations.