She finally reached Rosen in April 2018 via Twitter direct message, and told him to do a search for #oxys on Instagram. There were 43,000 results at the time. “Yikes,” Rosen responded. “This is SUPER helpful.” For years, Instagram simply hadn’t been proactively looking for drug sellers, or paying attention to the trend in Carey’s reports. With Rosen’s push, the company removed the hashtags one day before Zuckerberg testified. But removing an offending hashtag or two didn’t remove drug sales from Instagram. The general problem remained. So Rosen told Systrom his request for his own integrity
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