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 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
How the fuck did you make it all the way up to Canada without seeing the hellscape of billboards that is, these United States?
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.
Unless you’re going through a native rez, then there’s billboards EVERYWHERE because allowing them to put up ads that are illegal for everyone else counts as reconciliation, I guess.
@Zaderade The internet is flooded with AI generated ads, it is crazy, I was using my sister’s phone for a moment and inside an app an ad pops up, it was a obviously AI generated image of a singer with the lyrics of the song, nothing compared to a scam, but still. Another example is my mother, she was using youtube shorts and her feed was flooded with AI generated videos, the “person”, voice, background, everything.
Then they ask why people are using ad blocking and alternative clients to consume content.
P.S: I have installed alternative clients, adblocks and all to their phones, I have told them and teach them how to avoid all of this crap, they don’t see to care, they love ads and all this crap. (It’s more of an habit thing I would say, but yeah)
My mother will click on anything that pops up on a screen and then go “ooh why did that happen”. She also has about 9,000 tabs open at any one time 8,300 of which are the same website.
Meanwhile on the other end of the scale my dad refuses to click anything so when he goes on a site on his phone, he will view the site to the tiny sliver that is visible under the cookie warning because he won’t click any button ever, he won’t even click reject he just refuses to press buttons.
I grew up with the internet and find it wild how other people navigate it. I was at a friends house and he used the computer there. The computer was a maleware infested piece of shit. If it was a horse, it would’ve been shot. He was buying concert tickets but it was so slow, it reminded me of my first computer with a 56kb modem. While the site was loading he was clicking on ads to play pool and other mini games, like it’s completely normal.
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”.
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
I’ve reported Nazis, violent threats, and literal child pornography on Instagram that then told me it didn’t go against their guidelines.
But if you make a clear joke in a joke group, you get flagged and can’t get it reviewed.
I read between the lines: this is the content they support, so it’s not a platform for me.
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.
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.
Same… “this huge anal horse dildo does not break our marketplace 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.
Next video:
I spent $500,000,000 to destroy a company
Reviewed by an AI. Nice.
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.
What issue?
The issue of fake and scam ads on social media platforms.
Removed by mod
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.
Meta’s “guidelines” are basically: does this content somehow stop us from making money?
The answer is generally no. If people stopped using the platform because of its poor handling of these kinds of situations, I guess that would affect them. Maybe?
Same with YouTube ads. Lots of scam’s and reporting it always ends in my report getting denied…
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.
Man. I blocked them with my pihole because I got tired of max volume jump scares whenever I clicked on a link to their. Guess it’s staying blocked indefinitely.
Oh hey another site that looks at reports and just bans the reporter…
Instagram owned by the Reddit people?
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. 😅
