Queer venues locked out as Meta suspensions hit Melbourne and Sydney

AdvertisementTechnologySocial media Queer venues locked out as Meta suspensions hit Melbourne and Sydney David Swan July 30, 2026 — 5:00am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. At least five venues have been hit since mid-July: Melbourne’s The 86, The Laird and UBQ, and Sydney’s Palms on Oxford and Tribe @ 231. The move has impacted some of the most iconic queer venues in Sydney’s Oxford Street. Louise Kennerley It now concedes the pages were “flagged in error”, but an expert says automated content moderation tools can be more likely to mistakenly flag queer content pages as inappropriate. Christopher Pearce Asked about the suspensions, a Meta spokesperson said: “A number of accounts associated with these venues were flagged in error.