Instagram remains the platform of choice for blackmailers to identify and engage with their targets, the blackmailer and human trafficking experts interviewed said Source: The Guardian, May 11, 2025, “BM Boys: the Nigerian sextortion network hiding in plain sight on TikTok“
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Instagram’s Sister App Threads is Privacy Nightmare
Source: The Guardian, July 11, 2023, “As Threads app thrives, experts warn of Meta’s string of privacy violations“
Advocates say kids’ Instagram product would ‘put young users at great risk’
Source: The Guardian, April 15, 2021
Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood sends letter to Mark Zuckerberg to stop Instagram for Kids
Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood, a youth advocacy non-profit, sent a letter signed by over 20 organizations, researchers, and advocates asking Mark Zuckerberg to stop development of Instagram for Kids. Read the letter, attached as a PDF to the page linked here.