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Instagram Keeps Accidentally Flagging Fish Photos as Offensive
False Flag British fishmonger Rex Goldsmith likes to post photos of his available seafood on Instagram. "I can put a video or photo up of a particular fish," he told BBC News, "and I'll often get...
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Human Traffickers Are Literally Selling Slaves on Instagram
Silicon Valley is helping the global slave trade thrive — and critics argue it should be held accountable for facilitating the barbarous practice. Posing as a husband and wife, a team from BBC News...
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Porn Stars: Instagram Keeps Deleting Our Accounts for No Reason
Double Standard Porn stars and sex workers say that Instagram keeps deleting their accounts — even when their posts don't violate the site's content standards, according to a new BBC News story. "They...
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Man Behind Plot to Steal a Domain at Gunpoint Is Headed to Prison
Desirable Domain A bizarre plot to steal a domain name at gunpoint has earned an Instagram influencer a lengthy prison sentence. Rossi Lorathio Adams II of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was the man behind "State...
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Bloomberg Hires Fyre Fest Promoters to Make Memes
How Do You Do Fellow Kids? As the 2020 presidential primary crescendoes, we've seen an app catastrophe in Iowa and new legislation intended to curb political deepfakes. But the (well-financed) Michael...
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Mall Santas Are Using Gimmicks to Court Instagram Parents
Family Friendly Every year, parents visit malls so their kids can have their photo taken with Santa (and let the big guy know what they're hoping to find under their Christmas tree.) Thanks to online...
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Vatican Confused by How Pope Account "Liked" Sexy Pic
Holy See Pope Francis' official Instagram account did an oopsie this week: It "liked" a revealing photo of Brazilian model Natalia Garibotto wearing a schoolgirl outfit. "I can teach you a thing or...
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Instagram Influencers Are Cloning Their Pets to Keep Churning Out Content...
In a bleak reflection of our self-obsessed society, online influencers are cloning their pets for internet clout. The idea, because we live in a dark timeline, is often to continue making content...
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Russian Court Rules Facebook and Instagram as "Extremist"
Extremist Russia is officially labelling activities happening on both Facebook and Instagram as "extremist," according to state-controlled news agency TASS — a worrying move further isolating the...
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Facebook Exec Defends Verifying Fake CGI People on Instagram
Conventionally, the blue checkmark verification badge signals on social media that the identity of the person running the account was corroborated by a third party. But things get a lot murkier when it...
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Instagram Working on AI to Block Unsolicited D**k Pics
Filtered Years too late, the company formerly known as Facebook has finally begun work on an algorithm to block unsolicited nude photos. In a statement given to The Verge, Meta Platforms confirmed that...
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Meta Board Trashes Facebook's "Convoluted and Poorly Defined" Female Nipple Rule
Battle Chest The group tasked with overseeing decisions at Facebook and Instagram is suggesting that Meta, those social networks' parent company, take a long, hard look at its infamous rule banning the...
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Fully AI-Generated Influencers Are Getting Thousands of Reactions Per Thirst...
For years, CGI-generated virtual influencers have been shilling brands, enjoying lavish lifestyles, and amassing substantial followings on social media. So it was probably inevitable that influencer...
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Guy Who Uses AI to Post as a Voluptuous Influencer: "I Usually Just Call...
The 21-year-old influencer Natalia Novak appears to live a lavish lifestyle. The extremely buxom blonde model likes to hang out at the beach, go shopping, and pose for Instagram glamour shots with her...
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Actor Blames AI for Liking Red-Pilled Social Media Posts
An up-and-coming actor has provided a bizarre explanation for why he liked and followed a bunch of bigoted posts and profiles: that AI had something to do with it. Best known for his role as Ambrose...
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Facebook's AI-Powered Jane Austen Is Already Overrun by Spam
They say never meet your heroes. But what if those heroes came in the shape of an AI chatbot designed to emulate a celebrity or literary great? Last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the...
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Instagram Apologizes for Bug that Added “Terrorist” to Palestinian User Bios
Amid bombing campaigns, a humanitarian crisis, rampant misinformation, and international discord that's said to be tearing the American government apart, Instagram's auto-translation algorithm seems to...
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Creators of Fake Influencer Say She's Generating $11,000/Month
While going through a rough patch, Spanish agency The Clueless decided it had enough of nagging and demanding human clients — so it cooked up an AI model instead. As Euronews reports, the agency says...
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Facebook Has a Gigantic Pedophilia Problem
Basic Issues Facebook's parent company Meta is seriously struggling to keep pedophiles off its social media platforms. Worse yet, as The Wall Street Journal reports, there have been instances of...
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Meta's New Image-Generating AI Is Trained on Your Instagram and Facebook Posts
Cashing In Earlier this week, Meta announced a new AI image generator dubbed "Imagine with Meta AI." And while it may seem like an otherwise conventional tool meant to compete with the likes of...
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