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> I see the same issue on Instagram for very specific issues you cannot report profiles. It came up recently that in order to report an imposter account, you h
by albedoa 7y ago
> I see the same issue on Instagram for very specific issues you cannot report profiles.
It came up recently that in order to report an imposter account, you have to tag the person who the account is impersonating.
So if that person doesn't have a known account, as is the case with Katie Bouman, there is no in-app mechanism for reporting it. Even when the issue was brought to them directly, Instagram asked what her main account is:
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1116811989819510789 https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/11168119898195107...
The result is that a redpiller with tens of thousands of existing followers from previously impersonating others using the same account is allowed to call himself and operate as the "official" Katie Bouman account. It's a great system.
- gowld 7y agoHmm, if IG allows an impersonation account as long as no "official" account exists, you could try creating a second impersonation account and claiming it is official in the report of the first impersonation. Put IG back on the spot to make a call.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoI've ran into that as well which gets worse: The artist who was hacked didn't show up on the list because they didn't have the check mark. Instagram should remove that checkmark if your username changes, or even lock down an IG account if a username change is attempted. It's very rare for an artist to change their username.