Thread by @curiousjamesp

It seems @Instagram has blocked my thread response, so here’s a stand-alone thread on why #Instagram REFUSES to remove #fake or #finsta #accounts.

My name is also on Instagram where I post about #antiques. Last weekend I worked the #antiquemall and posted these 3 stories.

I screen shot these the next morning, so that 1st story came from #Insights.

1st - 81 views - all legit

2nd - 71 views minus 2 #finsta spammers = 69 views

3rd - 75 views minus 13 #finsta spammers = 62 views

While news media like @allinwithchris @Slate @nytimes @FoxNews @morroweric try to spin the narrative of @SenBlumenthal’s exchange w/ @Meta / #Facebook’s #AntigoneDavis there’s real world application to #finsta accounts in choking out views to decrease popularity. @FacebookWatch

I get marginalizing the idea of an unpopular subject like #antiques being made LESS unpopular, this is hardly something to call congressional meetings on. But it’s an innocuous subject to test things on.

Look what happened back in March when I got my 1st #COVID #vaccine.

It’s a single story with 23 views minus 6 = 17 views total.

That is MY #Covid vaccine, you can see the “JAME” and the #moderna there. THAT’S ME showing I was getting #vaccinated to a group of #antique people, most of which we can assume are right leaning, #vaccine hesitant.

To add insult to injury and make the current climate WORSE, the “suggested for you” of these #finsta accounts suggest legit antique dealers. The Goods Company follows me… they have an amazing #Instagram account, so I followed them back. But the suggestions here are real people.

So let’s take a look at “lisa.david.9in8777o” who managed to squeeze into this @instagram story view while I was typing this original thread on the 18th.

Ms. “Fuck me hard” (in German) has 8 followers and her link to her VK (Russian social media account) profile.

At this time I’m not interested in #Russian porn (check back tho), but each of “lisa’s followers has #Stories going.

Remember when we were told that fake Instagram accounts don’t run #instagram #stories?

That’s not true. Each of these got more engagement & more views from me.

BTW, if you look at some of these “friends,” you will find a LOT of people from other countries trying to pose as #influencers with “personal blogs.” But right away from the “suggestions for you,” there’s a trail that leads to OTHER #finsta accounts.

So why is it necessary for @Meta /@Facebook / @instagram to keep these OBVIOUSLY fraudulent accounts? How do they even get created?

The “soc.secrets.promotion” account has #bots creating these profiles and no one at #instagram sees the need to prevent them from being duplicated.

Back in February, I noticed that @Instagram was in NO way interested in stopping ANY of these accounts for any reason.

These months later the ruling still stands, this account wasn’t removed for sex solicitation, and the account is gone even though a report of it still exists.

Back then I used the same profile pic as I do on here. I was a pretty coordinated business.

Then I realized that there’s NOTHING I’m going to do to make my small business visible.

So ANOTHER #finsta application is #instagram can decide which #smallbusiness live and die.

“Steven.anderson.0ee2526o” was right under “Fuck me hard” Lisa. This account has 7 followers, only 6 are listed.

@BotSentinel would probably label these followers as suspect. @instagram does not. The profiles LOOK legit, so they are ignored. And so the #finsta web stands.

This trend of LEGIT LOOKING spam accounts propping up OBVIOUSLY faie spam accounts keeps #Instagram’s AI confused, allowing a spam network, or @Meta / @Facebook itself, to do anything they want from preventing positive #COVID messaging to eliminating small businesses.

Lastly, @Instagram and @Meta / @Facebook KNOW ALL THIS ALREADY.

These are my current reports from this timeframe but many reports go missing ALL THE TIME.

Thank you for reading. /END

If you want to know there my original thread of this was at, it was in response to THIS @instagram tweet.

Can you find it? Does it allow you to see the thread?

https://twitter.com/instagram/status/1450153240671113217

Every tweet in this thread was taken directly from here… which you probably can’t see.

Why is that @instagram / @Meta / @Facebook?

https://twitter.com/curiousjamesp/status/1450156882845384713

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Today in @instagram / @Meta / @Facebook

75 views - 9 #finsta accounts
= 66 legit viewers

And besides the “Fuck me now” crowd, we get this: