Mass AI bans. False copyright strikes. Income switched off overnight, with no warning and no one to call. The Creators Union is where affected creators organise for representation, share what works, and push platforms to do right.
combined followers across our members’ platforms, growing with every creator who joins the union.
copyright claims processed by YouTube's Content ID in 2025. About 99% were decided by machines, not people.
Source: YouTube Copyright Transparency Reportof closed cases where independent EU reviewers overturned a platform's moderation decision.
Source: European Commission, DSApeople signed a single petition against Meta wrongfully disabling accounts with no human support.
Source: People Over Platforms petitionAcross Meta, YouTube and TikTok, the decisions that end careers are automated, opaque, and almost impossible to challenge. The evidence is now on the record.
From mid-2025, Meta disabled creators and ordinary users en masse, some falsely flagged for the most serious offences, with no warning, no evidence, and appeals that went nowhere. Meta's own Oversight Board found the system carries “systemic human rights concerns” and lacks due process.
Meta Oversight Board, via TechCrunch (Jun 2026)YouTube ran 2.5 billion Content ID claims in 2025 and estimates 6%+ of takedown-webform requests are likely false. Scammers buy black-market access to copyright tools and extort creators. Pay up, or lose your channel to a strike you can't fight.
YouTube transparency data + BloombergDemonetisation, frozen payouts, throttled reach, shuttered creator funds: livelihoods vanish without notice or recourse. When the algorithm decides, there is no one to call.
Deep-research brief, 2024-2026Five things the platforms owe the creators who power them. This is the standard we’re organising to win.
When an account is actioned, we deserve to know exactly why: the specific post, the policy, the decision behind it. Not a vague, automated “violation of community standards.” We’re calling for plain-English reasons behind every suspension, clear documentation of how the appeals process actually works and who reviews it, and advance notice when the rules or the algorithm change in ways that affect our reach and our income.
The accounts that drive the most engagement on a platform should never have their bans and appeals decided by an algorithm alone. Above a meaningful size and engagement threshold, every suspension and every appeal must be reviewed by a trained person before a creator’s livelihood is taken away. Automation can flag a problem; it should not be judge, jury, and executioner.
Large creators and networks of pages should have a named human representative, someone who can work with us to keep our accounts aligned with the platform’s vision instead of leaving us to guess. And that support staff must actually have access to moderation tools, so that when it’s clear the AI got it wrong, a human can put it right. Support that can’t reverse an obvious mistake isn’t support.
Enforcement has been demonstrably haywire since the start of 2026. We are calling for a reversal of the ban, reach-throttling, and demonetisation decisions made from January 2026 onward, held until a stable, transparent system that meets the standards above is in place. Creators should not keep paying the price of a broken system they did not build.
No one should lose years of work overnight with no warning. Platforms should tell us when an account is at risk, name the exact violations that could lead to suspension, and spell out precisely what we need to do to avoid it and bring our accounts in line going forward. A warning and a path to comply, before the ban, not after.
One creator is easy to ignore. Thousands, organised, are not.
Strength in numbers. We aggregate cases, speak to platforms and press with one voice, and push for the transparency, due process, and independent appeals that regulators have already shown work.
A members-only space to compare notes, warn each other about scams and strike rackets, share what actually gets accounts back, and organise. You are not alone in this.
Plain-English email briefings on policy changes, enforcement waves, legal developments, and the levers (like the EU's Digital Services Act) that you can actually pull.
Suspended, struck, or demonetised? Tap the collective playbook: escalation routes, appeal templates, the independent-redress bodies platforms can't ignore, and members who've been there.
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Anyone who creates for an audience on Instagram, Facebook, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, X, Twitch or elsewhere, whatever your size. If platform enforcement affects your work or income, this is for you.
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We can't guarantee reinstatement, and no one honestly can. What we can do is share the escalation routes and appeal tactics that have worked, point you to independent redress mechanisms, and add your case to the collective pressure that does move platforms.
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