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submitted 11 months ago by Zaderade@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

These scammers using Mr Beasts popularity, generosity, and (mostly) deep fake AI to scam people into downloading malware, somehow do not go against Instagrams community guidelines.

After trying to submit a request to review these denied claims, it appears I have been shadow banned in some way or another as only an error message pops up.

Instagram is allowing these to run on their platform. Intentional or not, this is ridiculous and Instagram should be held accountable for allowing malicious websites to advertise their scam on their platform.

For a platform of this scale, this is completely unacceptable. They are blatant and I have no idea how Instagrams report bots/staff are missing these.

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[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 11 months ago

That doesn’t mean the issue disappears.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 8 points 11 months ago

Of course it doesn't. Still good advice regardless.

[-] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago
[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 11 months ago

The issue of fake and scam ads on social media platforms.

[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago

But it does mean that an unpaid moderator isn’t attempting to moderate their platform. Let them see what happens when they take the extwitter approach of letting the computers handle everything.

I’d rather vulnerable or stupid people didn’t get scammed first.

this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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