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’.
Same… “this huge anal horse dildo does not break our marketplace guidelines”
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
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.
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
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
Reviewed by an AI. Nice.
The AI have investigated themselves and have found no wrongdoing
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 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 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.
Companies serving ads should have at least partial liability for them. If they can’t afford to look into them all, then maybe they are too big or their business model just isn’t as viable as they pretend it is.
They are too big. There is no maybe about it.
You best start believing in late stage capitalism, you’re in one.
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Mr. Beast feels so unlikable to me, I really can’t understand his popularity. But that’s beside the point, sorry. Fuck instagram!
I reported a pic of a nazi flag with Hitler in front of it, with the caption: Hitler did nothing wrong, f**k jews.
Doesn’t go against community standards.
I made a video about the struggles of children who are sexual abused, with a link to donate to a charity that helps children. Instant shadowban and no longer monetized.
All of metas moderation is done by bots, and they are terrible at moderation.
I had something like that happen.
I report death threats against me from transphobic bigots, that specifically cited me being trans as why they wanted to kill me. Reported it as hate speech and a threat of violence. “We’re sorry, this does not violate community guidelines.”
Later I made a self-deprecating joke about being white.
Three month ban for “Racism and Bigotry”
Facebook is a fucking joke, and not a funny one either.
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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.
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.
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.
I report lots of scam ads and leave comments calling them out. I’ve had Meta or YouTube take down maybe one or two of the hundreds I’ve reported. But I’ve had a ton of my comments removed as “hate speech” (stuff like pointing out a NFT collection was using stolen artwork). We are not their customers - advertisers are. The people who made this ad are the people that paid Meta - why would they take it down?
Fuck Meta
Godspeed to Pixelfed, but Instagram absolutely killed photo sharing platforms for me. I really want nothing to do with them anymore.
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…
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
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’
You don’t need to market yourself for the Oscars.
You just pay them money.
YouTube also rejected my report for fake Mrbeast giveaway ads :(
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There are different standards between the users and the people that give meta money. It’s sad but true, and why I think moderation is a SIGNIFICANT concern when considering federating with threads
