Let us set the scene.
A group of women, fuelled by genuine passion and approximately too much coffee, decides to launch a global feminist community on X — formerly known as Twitter, currently known as a platform where anything can happen and accountability is optional. The account is created. The handle is chosen. The bio is written. The logo is uploaded. Everything is beautiful. The feminist revolution is approximately forty-eight hours away.
And then X looks at the brand new @GFAdotcom account, squints its algorithmic eyes, and says: inauthentic.
Not spam. Not harmful. Not dangerous. Inauthentic.
A feminist alliance full of real women, with a real website, a real mission and a very real amount of frustration — flagged by a robot for not being real enough.
We could not make this up if we tried.
The Kafkaesque Saga Begins
The suspension arrived without ceremony. One moment the account existed. The next, it was locked and the rest of the world was informed it had been suspended. We, meanwhile, could still log in — which meant we had the unique pleasure of watching our own account appear suspended to everyone else while being fully visible to us. Like being trapped inside a glass box and waving at people who cannot see you.
We filed an appeal. Naturally.
X reviewed it. X denied it.
We filed another appeal, this time with considerably more words and considerably more dignity than the situation perhaps warranted. A carefully worded, respectful, humble letter explaining exactly who we are, what we are building and why none of it constitutes inauthentic behavior.
X’s automated systems reviewed it.
And then something extraordinary happened.
We received an email.
“Our automated systems have determined there was no violation and have restored your account to full functionality.”
Victory. The feminist revolution was back on. We celebrated for approximately four minutes.
The account was still suspended.
The Part Where It Gets Funnier (and Also More Maddening)
Here is where the story enters territory that can only be described as uniquely X-shaped chaos.
The account was restored — officially, in writing, by X themselves — but continued to appear suspended to every single person who tried to view it. We checked from different browsers. Different devices. Different countries. Suspended. Suspended. Suspended.
We waited. Servers need time to sync, we told ourselves. Technology is complicated, we said. Give it a few hours, we thought.
We gave it three days.
On day three, we logged back in to find a brand new message waiting for us. Permanent read-only mode. No posting. No retweeting. No liking. No new accounts. You can look at X but you may absolutely not touch it.
The account that had been officially restored — in a written email, by X Support, with the words “no violation was found” — had simultaneously been placed in permanent read-only mode.
At this point we genuinely considered the possibility that X’s systems are simply several robots in a trench coat who are not speaking to each other.
We Are Not Alone (Not Even Close)
Here is where it stops being funny and starts being genuinely worth paying attention to.
Account suspensions have nearly tripled since Twitter has become X.
And the “inauthentic behavior” flag is one of the most commonly misapplied. A wave of false suspensions for inauthentic accounts affected countless users, with people reporting that every time they submitted an appeal, they would receive an email stating their account had been restored — only to find it still suspended. The pattern was identical across hundreds of cases: restoration email arrives, account remains locked, appeal again, repeat.
One user described the situation plainly: “It’s crazy how nothing is getting fixed regarding this… I just wanted to use the app.” Another noted that even X Premium subscribers — paying customers — experienced the exact same broken appeal loop, with no humans apparently involved in the process at any stage.
The issue is not isolated to small or new accounts either. Established accounts with years of history and thousands of followers have been suspended for inauthentic behavior with no explanation and no meaningful recourse — with appeals going unanswered and automated responses providing no actual resolution.
In other words — welcome to the club. It has surprisingly good membership numbers.
The Resolution (Sort Of)
What we can tell you is that the experience taught us something important — which is that building a global feminist community on a platform that can erase you overnight, with no human oversight and no meaningful appeal process, is perhaps not the most stable foundation in the world.
While X sorts out its relationship with logic, we have been quietly building somewhere else.
Our Facebook page is live, active and — crucially — not currently suspended. It is where we are sharing news, stories and updates about the Global Feminist Alliance while we continue to grow the platform at globalfeministalliance.com.
If you believe that feminist voices deserve to be heard — and not quietly disappeared by an algorithm that cannot tell the difference between a bot and a feminist alliance — come find us there.
We would love to have you. And we promise we are very, very authentic.
Have you been wrongly suspended on X? You are almost certainly not alone. Share your experience in the comments — we would love to hear it.