Someone has stolen my Instagram account
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Someone has stolen my Instagram account
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#2other than the leading title, interesting post.
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#3This is a very common thing. In fact influencers and FB employees publicly and loudly talk about this method and no one stops them. "Hey I'm visiting fb headquarters anyone want a new @ or a checkmark?" Why do random fb employees even have this capability?
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#4Shocking behavior from the most immoral company on the Internet. What can be done about this?
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#5This is a very common thing. In fact influencers and FB employees publicly and loudly talk about this method and no one stops them. "Hey I'm visiting fb headquarters anyone want a new @ or a checkmark?" Why do random fb employees even have this capability?
Didn't a similar thing happen with a famous Soccer player?
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#6I had this happen to one of my accounts, it got taken over by someone, I don’t know how, but I moved heaven and earth to reach someone at Instagram to no avail. It confirmed in my mind that the employees of Facebook and Instagram could not care less about any of us unless we are making the money.
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#7There's no evidence to back the user's claims. This sounds like "Hey my dad works at Xbox and will ban you". There are other ways to compromise an Instagram account, like sim swapping (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/t-mobile-employee-made-u...)
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#8It's sad and upsetting, but when will people learn that Facebook, Google et al do not care at all about individual users? Their model simply does not factor in the worries of a single user.
(Worse is how they want to propagate the idea that software should be free and of highest quality, thus preventing any communal attempts at creating different models.)
I advice everyone who has an account to at least download their data to keep a copy of it: https://www.facebook.com/help/1701730696756992
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#9Please upvote this story — if it gets enough attention, someone at FB or IG might act.
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#10The arbitrariness with which these companies rule over our digital lives infuriates me more from month to month. We do our best to fight dictators in the physical world but somehow accept them in the digital realm.