Instagram doesn’t know the full scale of its problems because it hasn’t invested in proactive detection. Instagram will take down a rash of photos of illegal activity, or a network of folks buying and selling verification, and then the problems will resurface in a different way. They’ll ban young people from seeing plastic surgery filters, but then not have a proper age verification system. It’s like a beautifully decorated apartment complex, full of pests and leaks. It requires a patch-up here, a trap there, and an occasional deep clean for it to be hospitable to tenants. But the managers of
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