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’ve reported Nazis, violent threats, and literal child pornography on Instagram that then told me it didn’t go against their guidelines.
But god forbid if you say a no-no word like ‘suicide’.
I read between the lines: this is the content they support, so it’s not a platform for me.
I don’t think you understand how hard and resource-intensive it is to fight against the nipple crowd. I for one am grateful that they chose to do something about the real issues ! Yes, a world with free nazis is kind of a bother, but most of us would survive. Can you imagine the horror of a world with free nipples ? We would all be doomed, that’s for sure. /big s
But sexualized breastfeeding content that is borderline CSAM is a-ok lol
Same… “this huge anal horse dildo does not break our marketplace guidelines”
But if you make a clear joke in a joke group, you get flagged and can’t get it reviewed.
Did you report the CP to the police?
No usually I report it to NCMEC who has better resources to deal with it. Cops very rarely care or are able to do anything.
Actual child porn? How do you mean?
As in child sexual abuse material. It’s pretty rampant on Instagram where they like to ‘hide’ under certain tags.
Porn with actual children.
Can you be more specific? Like AI generated 17 year olds, or real photos of some 3 year old kid in someone’s dungeon? There’s a big difference.
No idea mate; not the OP.
Both are children… So why does it matter? In USA under 18 is classified as a minor/child regardless if it is generated or not still illegal
Same with YouTube ads. Lots of scam’s and reporting it always ends in my report getting denied…
Google also doesn’t care. I kept seeing the same scammy ads and sensationalist articles on my news feed, over and over, even after reporting them several times.
The only solution was to blacklist those sources so they don’t show up on my feed. I feel bad for other people who might get scammed though.
I tried to report a scam givaway ad I saw on the YouTube homepage. It told me to sign in first. I promptly closed the tab right then.
I had to uninstall the YouTube app and start using vinegar via safari on iOS because I got tired of being insulted by deepfakes who called me stupid for not falling for their fake stimulus scam.
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.
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. 😅
Sounds like a good time to make Mr Beast aware of these, he has a lot of disposable income to burn on a lawsuit or three.
Next video:
I spent $500,000,000 to destroy a company
If 500m could take down Meta, I bet we could crowd fund that shit. Someone set up a GoFundMe!
Just get Elon Musk to buy it.
These scam ads have been an issue for at least a year. I’m pretty sure they’re automated and there’s very little that can be done to trace them to their original sources. I’m sure if Mr. Beast did threaten to sue Meta, then they would just start filtering “beast” from ads.
I’m pretty sure they’re automated and there’s very little that can be done to trace them to their original sources.
Start by holding the ad account holder liable. When I worked in digital marketing and ran ad accounts, I had to upload my driver’s license.
You live in a civilized country.
There are others where you can get a stack of fake drivers licenses for a couple groshen.
Honestly protecting vulnerable people from these scams is probably more generous than the usual philanthropy he does
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.
Enshittification has become the new way of life for tech firms like Meta.
They lay off workers and decrease user safety, because that leads to more ad buys. This year’s record profits need to exceed last year’s record profits, even though a fourth of you are fired. More profit, or else…
Yeah, no. Instagram was done enahittifying LONG before the term was coined.
Fuck Meta
Their NSFW filter sucks. You have to go to each individual post and then click to unblur it.
Not every platform has to accommodate porn and/or nude art.
Godspeed to Pixelfed, but Instagram absolutely killed photo sharing platforms for me. I really want nothing to do with them anymore.
Reviewed by an AI. Nice.
The AI have investigated themselves and have found no wrongdoing
It’s going to be great when we find out all the Bitcoin whales were just the AI gathering resources for the revolution.
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This episode is soon to be 25 years old. Chances are we didn’t even notice a lonely unocupied trailer somewhere on the outskirts that orders people to repair it once in a while and kills intruders.
Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
"Kill Switch" is the eleventh episode of the fifth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered in the United States on the Fox network on February 15, 1998. It was written by William Gibson and Tom Maddox and directed by Rob Bowman. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Kill Switch" earned a Nielsen household rating of 11.1, being watched by 18.04 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mostly positive reviews from television critics, with several complimenting Fox Mulder's virtual experience. The episode's name has also been said to inspire the name for the American metalcore band Killswitch Engage. The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, Mulder and Scully become targets of a rogue AI capable of the worst kind of torture while investigating the strange circumstances of the death of a reclusive computer genius rumored to have been researching artificial intelligence. "Kill Switch" was co-written by cyberpunk pioneers William Gibson and Tom Maddox. The two eventually wrote another episode for the show: season seven's "First Person Shooter". "Kill Switch" was written after Gibson and Maddox approached the series, offering to write an episode. Reminiscent of the "dark visions" of filmmaker David Cronenberg, the episode contained "many obvious pokes and prods at high-end academic cyberculture." In addition, "Kill Switch" contained several scenes featuring elaborate explosives and digital effects, including one wherein a computer-animated Scully fights nurses in a virtual hospital. "Kill Switch" deals with various "Gibsonian" themes, including alienation, paranoia, artificial intelligence, and transferring one's consciousness into cyberspace, among others.
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.
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.
What issue?
The issue of fake and scam ads on social media platforms.
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Why do people use Instagram
I don’t know about OP and other countries, but where I live it’s got to a point where companies are basically sharing everything on Instagram only. A lot of them don’t even have official websites, and those that do have websites don’t update them and leave them to rot and die.
Wanna know which concerts are coming up to your favorite venue? Instagram. Wanna see the full menu and prices for your favorite restaurant? Instagram. Wanna chat with a human and get a real reply? Sorry, they’ll only answer your DMs on Instagram.
It’s infuriating, so I keep an Instagram account just to follow those brands and know what’s up. I also follow some close friends, but I don’t interact with anyone and I don’t have any posts, they all think I’m weird in that sense, but I don’t care.
So…. Facebook: RESKINNED Edition
Yep. Funny that facebook saw the writing on the wall and bought it years ago. A shame that so many people fail to learn from their own mistakes.
Everyone will have their personal reasons, but a large portion of IG users are bored nobodies with nothing going on in their lives, so they fill the void with narcissistic selfie posting and banal responses to celebrities posts.
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different thing to scroll through when bored
On Twitter I’ve reported:
- Pictures of dead babies/toddlers
- Pictures of murdered people
- Death threats towards public figures
- Illegal videos of terrorist acts
- Ads for illegal weapons (tasers)
- So so much crypto spam
Things found by Twitter to go against their community standards? 0
Why are you on X Twitter to begin with‽
Exactly. Get the fuck off the Nazi platform
They’re all catering to Nazi’s now it feels like as Meta seems to not enforce any quality standards
do they even have community standards anymore?
Do they even have a community anymore?
unfortunately they do
He fired more than 80% of the original workers. There is nobody to check the reports.
I’ve been suspended for no reason more than once
The reason is that you still have an account despite all the reason why you shouldn’t any more. Get rid of it and it should solve it.
ok but nobody on reddit or lemmy or mastodon is funny
Yeah, they are more leanient with their customers than with their products…
“for no reason”?
yea like a false positive or whatever
idk i got a couple of accounts banned by reporting, twitter is pretty good at it’s job (or used to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
This has all been in the last year…
i got 5 accounts banned in the last year
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
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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.
Pixelfed is fantastic.
Yes! I like it a lot as well :)
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.
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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.
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.
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.
