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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

At this point I'm convinced meta either gets paid under the table to keep that shit, or (probably more likely) they make so much money off of the sheer volume of ai scam ads that they just don't care.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (5 children)

You still using Instagram! In 2024

I guess I am the only who thought that everyone has moved on from Instagram.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Where did the people that use instagram move to?

[–] alekwithak 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As a photographer I have tried every alternative I'm aware of. Insta is still king for image sharing, which is... Nuts, to say the least.

I'd also love to hear where they supposedly moved to.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

There's pixelfed, but you're unlikely to get a following there.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

They're also pretty cool with Nazi's now too, Meta is a garbage company

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Translation: These ads make us lots of money.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Each time I see "Meta's product didn't remove reported malicious post" I just think that this is valid punishment for user and their ego for wasting their time on these shitty platforms. 😅

[–] doppelgangmember 7 points 11 months ago

Had to double check if it was the onion...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Oh hey another site that looks at reports and just bans the reporter....

Instagram owned by the Reddit people?

[–] ZambiblasianOgre 5 points 11 months ago

Instagram is a cancerous cesspit.

[–] set_secret 4 points 11 months ago

easy fix, get off instagram.

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