A high school history teacher in Vaughan, Ont., says she lost access to her Instagram account — and thousands of personal photos, conversations and memories — after the social media platform wrongly accused her of posting material that it said depicted "child sexual exploitation, abuse and nudity."

Megan Conte says it took days to get through to a human at Meta, which owns Instagram, to plead her case. But even that didn't result in her account being reinstated, she said.

"When I read what I was …