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.
I don’t think any report I’ve ever made on a social media platform has ever been accepted. I once reported an account on tiktok named “[swastika symbol] FATHERLAND [swastika symbol]” that posted holocaust denial and genocidal content and got back “no violation detected”. The same is true when I reported similar accounts on twitter (even pre-musk), and Facebook. I don’t even know what the point of the report feature on those sites is, I’ve never even heard of it working.
Not that this helps anyone, but I gave up Instagram the day Facebook bought it. I don’t regret it and my mental health is better for it. Using Instagram made me depressed as hell.
I deleted Facebook a couple years ago. Instagram is my guilty pleasure for car reels and god damn dancing toothless. It seems like the end of my ig use is getting closer
Facebook now is basically hard right wing clowns protected from repprts and boomers whinging about problems they made up. There are still holdouts (groups) that aren’t ruined but facebook is trying its best to do so.
Instagram is a cancerous cesspit.
They’re also pretty cool with Nazi’s now too, Meta is a garbage company
The FAANG looking the other way as usual.
Man. I blocked them with my pihole because I got tired of max volume jump scares whenever I clicked on a link to their. Guess it’s staying blocked indefinitely.
If you stop using Instagram, then you won’t have to worry about it.
That doesn’t mean the issue disappears.
Of course it doesn’t. Still good advice regardless.
What issue?
The issue of fake and scam ads on social media platforms.
removed by mod
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.
I’ve stopped reporting obvious scams / spam on instagram because something like 19 out of 20 reports get ignored or denied
It’s still worthwhile. It could be that after X number of reports they assign a human.
Better solution: leave their platform
So what they are saying is they are willing to take liability and thus be open to being sued over this as they know of the scams but say they do not break community guidelines
Got it
Seems like Mr Beast might have a claim for a defamation suit since they’re actively allowing what amounts to identity theft and fraud on their platform.
Yeah, only the rich would benefit. Again.
It is exactly because Instagram is at the scale that it is that caused moderation to be difficult. Facebook has relied on using bots to moderate for so long due to its scale, and using bots that are specifically designed to detect AI generated contents is really not possible without introducing a ton of false positives, since the Instagram of the 2020s at its core IS celebrity/influencer advertisement, and there is honestly very little that differentiate what constitutes as "content* and “spam” there.
Since influencers will be the first to be automated by machines, I just don’t really see a point in having an Instagram account any longer, the inevitable conclusion of creating a fake reality of your life on Instagram is being replaced by a machine that can fake it more efficiently.
How are you going to market yourself for the Oscars push without an IG account? It’s the celebrity spam platform
You don’t need to market yourself for the Oscars.
You just pay them money.
We still have a work account, along with fan pages and memes, etc.
Hoping the Lemmy shitposting meme magic will work again, I don’t understand how it works, and it did backfire during the Golden Globes when your favorite esteemed character actress to you got her own Lemmy bit turned around on her:
Koy continued: “The key moment in Barbie is when she goes from perfect beauty to bad breath, cellulite, and flat feet — or what casting directors call ‘character actor’
Are… Are you a fugitive from the law, Margot?
Depends on if you’ve seen ‘Dreamland’ or not.
First read Mr. Bean.
Like many, I’ve reported lots of stuff to basically every social media outlet, and nothing has been done. Most surprising, a woman I know was getting harassed from people setting up fake accounts of her. Meta did nothing, so she went to the police…who also did nothing. Her MP eventually got involved, and after three months the accounts were removed, but the damage had gone on for about two years at that point.
As someone that works in tech, it’s obvious why this is such a hard problem, because it requires actual people to review the content, to get context, and to resolve in a timely and efficient manner. It’s not a scalable solution on a platform with millions of posts a day, because it takes thousands (if not more) of people to triage, action, and build on this. That costs a ton of money, and tech companies have been trying (and failing) to scale this problem for decades. I maintain that if someone is able to reliably solve this problem (where users are happy), they’ll make billions.
That costs a ton of money
As if they don’t have it?
Fuckin please. I’m so sick of hearing that something to “too expensive” for a multi billion dollar, multinational corporation.
But it is scalable. Do you have any idea how much fuckin money these social media sites make? They absolutely can afford it. We just don’t force them too.
I’m going to argue that if they can’t scale to millions of users safely they shouldn’t.
If they were selling food at huge scales but “couldn’t afford to have quality checks on all of what they ship out”, most people probably wouldn’t be like “yeah that’s fine. I mean sometimes you get a whole rat in your captain crunch but they have to make a profit”
Also I’m pretty sure a billionaire could afford to pay a whole army of moderators.
On the other hand, as someone else said, they kind of go to bat for awful people more often than not. I don’t really want to see that behavior scaled up.
You’re probably right, but as a thought exercise, imagine how many people you would need to hire across multiple regions, and what sort of salary these people deserve to have, given the responsibility. That’s why these companies don’t want to pay for it, and anyone that has worked this kind of data entry work will know that it can be brutal.
IMO, governments should enforce it, but that requires a combined effort across multiple governments.
I get a TOS flag anytime I mention that using one’s faith to justify bigotry and violence though, so we know there’s at least one group fb goes to bat for - Christofascists.
I doubt they’re missing them. They simply don’t care and will continue to not care until something happens that makes the money generated by the ADs not worth it.
Instagram is owned by Meta… Facebook.
Facebook had no problem helping pedophiles distribute child pornography on their platform, terrorists and Nazis from organizing events on their platform, or allowing deceptive political ads that swayed the votes of democratic nations.
Why would they give any fuck about fake Mr beast ads?
Translation: These ads make us lots of money.
