Technology

I've reported Nazis, violent threats, and literal child pornography on Instagram that then told me it didn't go against their guidelines.

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.

If you stop using Instagram, then you won't have to worry about it.

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.

Reviewed by an AI. Nice.

Same with YouTube ads. Lots of scam's and reporting it always ends in my report getting denied..

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

[...] Mr Beasts popularity, generosity [...]

Mr. Beast feels so unlikable to me, I really can't understand his popularity. But that's beside the point, sorry. Fuck instagram!

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.

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.

https://pixelfed.org/

Fuck Meta

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…

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.

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 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?

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.

Instagram is owned by Meta... Facebook.

Facebook had no problem helping pedophiles distribute child pornography on their platform, terrorists and Nazis from organizing events on their platform, or allowing deceptive political ads that swayed the votes of democratic nations.

Why would they give any fuck about fake Mr beast ads?

I read these comments about people complaining about AI ads and I suddenly realize how little I've had to deal with that shit. All my browsers have 2-3 adblockers since pretty much ad blockers existed, I stopped watching TV like 20 years ago and went full ahoy matey for a while, then paid Netflix and Amazon Prime and with ads coming there I'm back to mateeeeyyy, and though here and there from time to time I do see some small ads on some sites (mostly on mobile mostly though seeing an image on Reddit (now Lemmy) in the rif (now connect) app

I stayed away from places like instagram like the disease that it is, I pretty much don't Facebook, and I barely ever had to deal with commercials for like the past 20 years of my life.

Most commercials I'd see would be billboards EVERYWHERE in the real world when I lived in Mexico (seriously, Mexican government, please do something about this, it's beyond bad there) but now here in Canada, it's mostly pretty quiet and nice.

I guess I'm kind of blessed in comparison with everyone else in here

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

So basically they're saying it's the user's fault for not having a better ad algorithm. That's amazingly poor thinking.

YouTube also rejected my report for fake Mrbeast giveaway ads :(

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

I’ve stopped reporting obvious scams / spam on instagram because something like 19 out of 20 reports get ignored or denied

The Review Requested Failed is really a cherry on top of this shit-cake lmao it literally describes modern social media in a nutshell to a T.

The funny thing is it's not even proper English, it shouldn't be "Review Requested Failed" it should be "Review Request Failed".

Somehow, someone reactivated an old Facebook account of mine, which was dormant for like a decade. I reached out to Facebook support and said that someone was using my old account to post diet ads. Their response? "We see nothing wrong here, so we're not going to do anything about it." 🤦‍♂️

Pixelfed is fantastic.

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.

You still using Instagram! In 2024

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