Instagram vowed to crack down on Meta glasses creeps. A month later, it was easy to find dozens of the videos still up.
Instagram vowed to crack down on pickup artists and pranksters who use Meta glasses to film harassing videos.Meta said that thousands of pieces of content have been removed, and terms like "rizz" are now blocked in search.Business Insider found dozens of the videos still up in the last month, some of which Meta removed after we alerted them."Are you a secret code?" a young man in Meta glasses asks a woman in a tank top on the sidewalk. "What do you mean, 'a secret code?'" she responds, seemingly confused as the man's glasses record her.
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Instagram vowed to crack down on pickup artists and pranksters who use Meta glasses to film harassing videos.Meta said that thousands of pieces of content have been removed, and terms like "rizz" are now blocked in search.Business Insider found dozens of the videos still up in the last month, some of which Meta removed after we alerted them."Are you a secret code?" a young man in Meta glasses asks a woman in a tank top on the sidewalk. "What do you mean, 'a secret code?'" she responds, seemingly confused as the man's glasses record her. "Because I'm trying to crack you," he says.The interaction, filmed by content creator Colin Allen for his Instagram account @thatiscolin, is one of dozens of similar videos that I found from popular and verified accounts on the platform in the month after Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said Meta would remove "harassing" pickup line videos filmed with Meta glasses.After I sent Meta a link to 20-plus pickup and other harassing "prank" videos from different accounts, the company removed the "secret code" video and eight others. Allen, who describes himself as a "lifestyle and comedy creator" and not a pickup artist, had used the same line to different women in several other videos, which remain up.
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- Instagram vowed to crack down on pickup artists and pranksters who use Meta glasses to film harassing videos.Meta said that thousands of pieces of content have been removed, and terms like "rizz" are now blocked in search.Business Insider found dozens of the videos still up in the last month, some of which Meta removed after we alerted them."Are you a secret code?" a young man in Meta glasses asks a woman in a tank top on the sidewalk. "What do you mean, 'a secret code?'" she responds, seemingly confused as the man's glasses record her.
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Instagram vowed to crack down on Meta glasses creeps. A month later, it was easy to find dozens of the videos still up.
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