Instagram had allowed users aged between 13 and 17 to operate business accounts on the platform, which showed the users’ phone numbers and email addresses. The DPC also found the platform had operated a user registration system whereby the accounts of 13-to-17-year-old users were set to ‘public’ by default. Source: The Guardian, September 5, 2022,… Continue reading Instagram fined €409 million for illegally letting teens make accounts that displayed their contact information publicly
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Instagram lets users illegally sell guns online
Source: The Guardian, June 15, 2022, “Meta banned firearms sales. Why are they still available on Facebook and Instagram?“
Instagram features don’t protect women from online abuse
Source: The Guardian, April 6, 2022, “High-profile women on Instagram face ‘epidemic of misogynist abuse’, study finds“
Instagram promotes itself to teens and children despite knowing it harms the mental health of teens and children
Source: The Guardian, November 18, 2021, US states investigate Instagram for ‘wreaking havoc’ on teens’ mental health
Instagram censors movie poster due to nipple
Source: The Guardian, August 11, 2021, “Instagram apologises after Almodóvar poster censorship row“
Instagram helps spread anti-vaccine messages
Source: The Guardian, Aug 11, 2021, “Facebook shuts accounts in anti-vaccine influencer campaign“
Instagram forcing users into posting more video content, even as users protest against a video-focused approach.
Source: The Guardian, August 8, 2021, “Why Instagram’s creatives are angry about its move to video“
Instagram supports exploitive business more than Olympian
Source: The Guardian, August 4, 2021, “Instagram blocks Elaine Thompson-Herah for posting videos of her own golds“ ‘I was blocked on Instagram for posting the races of the Olympic because I did not own the right to do so. So see y’all in 2 days,’ [Elaine Thompson-Herah] wrote on Twitter, a reference to her appearance… Continue reading Instagram supports exploitive business more than Olympian