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One Woman Got Facebook to Police Opioid Sales On Instagram (archive)
Eileen Carey says she has regularly reported Instagram accounts selling opioids to the company for three years, with few results. Last week, Carey confronted two executives of Facebook, which owns Instagram, about the issue on Twitter. Since then, Instagram removed some accounts, banned one opioid-related hashtag and restricted the results for others.
Searches for the hashtag #oxycontin on Instagram now show no results. Other opioid-related hashtags, such as #opiates, #fentanyl, and #narcos, surface a limited number of results along with a message stating, "Recent posts from [the hashtag] are currently hidden because the community has reported some content that may not meet Instagram's community guidelines." Some accounts that appeared to be selling opioids on Instagram also were removed.
The moves come amid increased government concern about the role of tech platforms in opioid abuse, and follow years of media reports about the illegal sale of opioids on Instagram and Facebook, from the BBC, Venturebeat, CNBC, Sky News and others. Following the BBC probe in 2013, Instagram blocked searches of terms associated with the sale of illegal drugs.
[...] Carey is now the CEO of Glassbreakers, a startup maker of software to support workforce diversity. But she worked on illegal drug sales in her previous job at MarkMonitor, a company that protects brands like pharmaceutical companies from online counterfeiting, piracy, and fraud. In a Mar. 30 tweet to Rob Leathern, Facebook's director of product management, Carey wrote, "The historical response that users can report abuse and moderators will review hasn't changed in 4 years." She asked him to "Please hold leadership accountable."
#StopSnitching.
Also at CNN.
See also: Facebook Needs to Do More to Stop the Online Opioid Market, Says FDA Chief
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U.S. Life Expectancy Continues to Decline Due to Opioid Crisis
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @09:49AM (7 children)
So did Ethanol_fluid hurt his back, or something, and has been shadow-perma-ip-banned for opioid use? What is going on!!!!
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @10:17AM (2 children)
Hmmm, Ethanol_fueled inquiries are being persistently modded -1 offtopic. Is there some Letter from some agency that you can't tell us about, SoylentNews? Blink twice for "no", mod this offtopic for "yes".
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 09 2018, @10:43AM
Why don't you click on Ethanol's journal link, and learn all about Ethanol's angst? Ooops - apologies - his journal is no longer available. I suppose he deleted it, or maybe his ban removed it. Ehhh - discussion here - https://soylentnews.org/~archfeld/journal/3132 [soylentnews.org]
I don't think the NSA has censored our little drunk buddy - but you can't know for sure in this day and age.
Whatever, you were modded offtopic because you are off topic. Funny how that works, sometimes.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @05:42AM
Whew! Never been so glad for a "redundant" mod! But, hey, wait a minute. . . !!!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday April 09 2018, @10:52AM (1 child)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @05:45AM
You intrigue me, FatPhil! Who do you think it is that you can thus identify?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @08:04PM (1 child)
I dunno, I always would mod him up because people troll mod him excessively.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday April 09 2018, @11:37PM
In his case I don't agree he was modded troll excessively at all, the racist crap was just low effort rubbish.
Maybe we need -1 Arsehole mod.