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Meta won't remove fake Instagram profiles that are clearly catfishing
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this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
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I hate having to be on meta for work, and this is a REGULAR occurrence. Obvious fake scam profile -> report -> no action taken. On Facebook I think it's maybe around a 20-30% success rate for taking down impersonators. On insta, it's about zero.
Meanwhile their algorithm identified a post of mine about chicken breeds and another that leaned leftist as spam and silenced me for a day.
Yup, I got muted for telling someone about audio. There’s a lot of snake oil in audiophile circles, and someone had posted something that was blatantly untrue. I’m a professional audio technician, and I gently hit them with the dreaded “um akshually…”
Turns out, they were getting ratio’ed pretty hard, because a lot of people were calling them out. And apparently when a bunch of people correct someone, Meta will just start automatically muting anyone who replies, because the comments get too repetitive.
Which sounds asinine to me; If someone is spreading misinformation, they shouldn’t be able to hide behind the “too many people are disagreeing with me” shield.