Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control

It's amazing to me how little moderation they do for Ad content. My Instagram ads are constant crypto scams. Maybe there just isn't the same incentives to moderate companies paying to scam your users, as opposed to free users posting their political views

Does anyone else feel like Instagram &quot;moderation&quot; is, well, basically a lost cause?<p>The core issue with it is the algorithm. There&#x27;s nothing inherently &quot;incorrect&quot; about 99% of the stuff I see on there but it clearly influences my mind over time regardless, it&#x27;s just a bad information diet.

Interesting that they go to Twitter to complain about censorship on other apps.

I was noticing the big blue app doesn&#x27;t let you report a fake profile unless the impersonated person has a real profile. What kind of narcissist designs a &quot;report fake profile&quot; feature that assumes everybody on earth has an account? Every time I report fake profiles I get the automated response that they looked into it and it&#x27;s legit. Did it twice today.<p>As people move on to other apps, scams and fake content on &quot;classic&quot; fb seems to still be reaching boomers and people in other countries. As usual, I do not get the impression anyone at meta cares.<p>The standard techie response for how to solve this problem is to get someone internal at meta to escalate. Otherwise known as not a solution to the problem. My experience doing this is that internal people handling such tickets are actually not very bright and your internal contact needs to repeatedly push back at people who want to close tickets with no action.

I actually spend a lot of time curating my feed and ensuring the algorithm shows me the type of content I want to see, so I haven’t personally felt that moderation is out of control. From my experience, both the posts and the ads I see are pretty relevant and aligned with my interests.<p>For context, I’m based on the West Coast, which might influence my experience. Just wanted to share my perspective!

It&#x27;s not just moderation. As of one week ago, my stories disappeared and now I have to go into Settings &gt; Archive, to see who viewed them, or delete them, etc. Not only that, but everyone I follow&#x27;s stories also disappeared unless I go to their profile to view them. Also, IG won&#x27;t refresh if I pull down. I have to close the app then reopen.

There is hardly any hope in controlling human expression by whatever means you employ. It is like trying to stop the waves from arriving on the beach by using a toy plastic bucket.

Took me a few yrs waiting for app.nz to be unblocked.<p>Finally unblocked after complaining on twitter about them

Given we have an election in less than a month hardly surprised that their moderation systems are erring on the side of caution.<p>Especially with so many well-funded, state sponsored actors using LLMs to sow division as we&#x27;ve seen so often on Twitter recently.