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.

  • Daxtron2@startrek.websiteEnglish
    48·
    6 months ago

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

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      6 months ago

      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.

  • Scotty_Trees@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • Zaderade@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      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

      • Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        6 months ago

        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.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    6 months ago

    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?

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
    231·
    6 months ago

    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?

  • phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    6 months ago

    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

    • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      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.

    • Texas_Hangover@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

      How the fuck did you make it all the way up to Canada without seeing the hellscape of billboards that is, these United States?

  • dynamojoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    6 months ago

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

      • anarchyrabbit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        So here’s the thing I love watching YouTube in the mornings on my TV box while having my coffee and while getting ready to suck the days dick. I watch either music videos or podcasts that I am interested in. Does newpipe have integration into TV boxes / smart tvs? I guess I could always cast…

  • stalfoss@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    6 months ago

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

  • Icalasari@kbin.social
    14·
    6 months ago

    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

  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    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.” 🤦‍♂️

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    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”.

  • cmat273@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    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.