United Kingdom, May 30 -- Meta has repeatedly ignored an independent body raising cases of people wrongly banned from their accounts.

The Appeals Centre Europe has assessed 4,600 cases of users on Facebook, Instagram and Threads who claimed they had been wrongly banned, but they say Meta largely never replies to the disputes.

In its transparency report, the Appeals Centre Europe said: "In the vast majority of cases related to account suspensions, platforms are unable or unwilling to provide the content which allows us to independently review their decisions."

The organisation is one of several independent settlement bodies allowing those in the UK to challenge social media platforms on their decisions, which includes content moderation...