Meta seems to be falling short of effectively tackling fake Instagram profiles even when there are sufficient signs to indicate that a profile is misusing someone else's photos and identity.
  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    391·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
      12·
      5 months ago

      wow. its like, you hear people who work in the sewers, but they often unseen… and you feel for them… cuz someone has to do it.

      you have to use meta products? i feel for ya. you have my sympathy. stay strong!

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        5 months ago

        Unfortunately, a lot of people have to use them. They are two of the three largest social media platforms. As much as I love the fediverse, I don’t think businesses are finding many customers here just yet.

          • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            5 months ago

            It’s a double-edged sword. I love the fediverse for what it is, and if it continues to be a niche place for good people to socialize, that would be okay with me. I would also love to see the Fediverse or some future version of it become a permanent replacement for corporate-owned social media. That can’t ever happen if major social activities that humans engage in aren’t represented.

            I would like to eventually see government communications, brand engagement, sales (if not ads), dating, customer service, political organizing, event coordinating, ticketing, vlogging, etc. as a part of fedi, meaning that people don’t have to rely on corporate-owned communication for online community. Would fedi also lose something precious in that process? Yes. would our society be a whole lot better? Absolutely.

        • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
          2·
          5 months ago

          ive built an instance (https://moist.catsweat.com) specifically with en eye on helping people off-board! im going for a generic, reliable ‘home base’ that people can then get to the fediverse content of choice.

          with all this de-federating nonsense goin on, i think its important we build reliable off-ramps to those giant platforms… but of course you cant help people achieve that if you dont interoperate with their old platforms.

          you are absolutely correct, this whole thing is still wet behind the ears. the fediverse still has serious interoperability roadblocks… the AP standards in practice are all over the place. it helps that some brands are rebuilding their twitter footprint on their own fediverse instances.

    • WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social
      6·
      5 months ago

      Meanwhile their algorithm identified a post of mine about chicken breeds and another that leaned leftist as spam and silenced me for a day.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        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.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Have you reported any IG comments?

      I’ve reported pedophile spammers’ comments (“naked … in profile”) this month yet they don’t appear in Settings > Help > Support Requests.

      Would figure I’m shadowbanned from reporting as a function of submitting enough reports that get ignored.

      So many pedospammers in the comments on big meme accounts (@wasted, @male). Mark Zuckerberg needs to do much more to stop enabling child abuse.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        I can’t say that I’ve ever even seen pedo spammers on IG. But I guess that says good things about my algorithm; Since I don’t go out of my way to interact with kids, I guess the algorithm just doesn’t even bother showing me content that would have pedo spammers in the comments.

        Or maybe they’re just being subtle about it and I don’t know the dog whistles to be able to identify them?

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    353·
    5 months ago

    This just in, Meta is a horrible company doing bad things and hurting people.

    In science news, studies show humans need “air” to “breathe”.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      I mean, Insta isn’t anywhere near as bad as TikTok or Facebook. TikTok and Facebook both moderate very heavily, whereas Insta typically has a much more relaxed stance on things like nudity. I’ve definitely seen burlesque photo shoots from friends on Insta, that they wouldn’t have been able to post on Facebook.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    5 months ago

    These pesky fake Instagram impersonators are getting sneakeir and more creative by the day, you just don’t know if anyone is really who they say they are on the other side of the screen nowadays.

    Lucky for me, no one here has tried to impersonate me and shill cryptos… yet. I just really don’t like cryptos.

    Also,

    … while simultaneously blocking the authentic profile whose pictures they are misusing. This cuts off the possibility of contact with and being seen by the authentic user.

    This is why I think 2 way blocking as implemented here is a bad idea, because it really opens up the block function as a potential avenue for abuse.

    • theangryseal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      5 months ago

      I’m glad no one knows me and I’m just floating around in the background like an extra. Nobody gonna try to impersonate me.

      I dated a girl once back in the MySpace days and she had a couple scammers out there using her likeness to catfish people. Fortunately, MySpace would take them down when alerted. It took a minute though.

  • WallEx@feddit.deEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    So they are the next ones to go after ex-twitter, because they drove away advertisers and the whole platform is build on ads. Yeah, I don’t really care, there will be another social media platform, maybe even a better one.

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      damn, i have 3 friends with fake profiles that have been impersonating then for over a year each now. one is 3 years old. none have been taken down.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      “Meta lets one in five scammers I report continue scamming”?

      There’s no excuse for the reported behavior: