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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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[–] anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Fuck meta, fuck x, and YouTube is not far off.

[–] Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

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

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Translation: These ads make us lots of money.

[–] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

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

Instagram owned by the Reddit people?

[–] BetaSalmon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I’ve been reporting ads on Instagram as spam for over a year now. Every single ad I see gets reported. Occasionally I get a report that says the ad has been deleted.

[–] ZambiblasianOgre@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Instagram is a cancerous cesspit.

[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

easy fix, get off instagram.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Meta's "guidelines" are basically: does this content somehow stop us from making money?

The answer is generally no. If people stopped using the platform because of its poor handling of these kinds of situations, I guess that would affect them. Maybe?

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