Thursday 17 November 2022 09:23 AM Astronomer claims she has been locked out of Twitter after video of meteor ... trends now
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An astronomer claims she had been locked out of her Twitter account since August after her video of a meteor shower was mistaken for explicit content by the social media giant's moderation bots.
Mary McIntyre, from Oxfordshire, made a six-second animated video clip of the Perseid meteor shower back four months ago but was locked out after it was flagged to have broken rules for containing 'intimate content without the consent of the participant'.
Ms McIntyre said she will only be allowed back onto the platform if she deletes the tweet and ticks a box to acknowledge that she broke rules, which she disputes.
Mary McIntyre, from Oxfordshire, made a six-second animated video clip of the Perseid meteor shower back in August
She told R4's Today Programme that she will only be allowed back onto the platform if she deletes the tweet and ticks a box to acknowledge that she broke rules, which she said she did not.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, she said: 'It's just crazy. I get a DBS check every year because I do a lot of work with school children and brownies and scouts,
'I don't really want it on my record that I have been sharing pornographic material when I haven't'.
She continued: 'I must have gone through the appeals process
