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Small-time crooks make money by reporting Instagram accounts

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Post by n_kb » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 6:45 AM UTC

Small-time crooks make money by reporting Instagram accounts
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Post by n_kb » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 6:46 AM UTC

Story in English https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/facebook-instagram-mass-...

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Post by phendrenad2 » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 11:37 AM UTC

Facebook's anti-abuse system, defeated by running curl in a loop, and then pinky-swearing that you're the owner of the account? Sounds about right.

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