Why is ‘Adam Driver Megalopolis’ banned from Instagram search?

When people search for “Adam’s driver Megalopolis” on Instagram or Facebook right now, instead of seeing a post about Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film, they are shown a warning, titled, “Child sexual abuse is illegal.”

That strange fact was pointed out in a post on X yesterday, and as of today, I can still see it when I look up a sentence. But why? Well, it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Threads’ recent calibration failure. And there are no bombshell revelations about it Megalopolis or its biggest star that I know.

Instead, Facebook and Instagram seem to block searches containing “mega” and “driving” — I saw it when I searched for those two words together, ​​​​​​​but not when I searched for “Megalopolis,” “Adam Driver,” or any other word mixed. and any others. The issue is nothing new, as this nine-month-old Reddit post about searching for “Sega mega drive” on Facebook shows. (That search seems to be working as expected, now.)

It is not clear why the names were withheld and Meta did not immediately respond to inquiries. Facebook and Instagram have blocked seemingly innocuous words, such as “chicken soup,” because distributors of child abuse materials use them as part of their coded language to avoid detection on the forums.