Yinon Ben Shoshan
17/11/2021
Wednesday, 17 November, 2021, 10:03 Updated: 11:25
Say Cheese: Instagram will take a picture of you to fight bots
According to online reports, the company has begun verifying accounts using selfie video from multiple angles.
The goal: to fight fake profiles on the social network, which can leave spam messages and inflate the count of likes or followers artificially
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Better late than never:
As part of a new feature it's exploring, Instagram has begun asking users to videotape their faces from multiple angles to make sure they're a real person, according to a report by Matt Navarra, a well-known social media consultant.
The social network has long struggled with bot accounts, which can leave spam messages, harass people, or be used to artificially inflate the likes or followers count.
Now, it seems that Meta (formerly Facebook) is testing this feature to test its effectiveness and thus curb the prevalence of bots on the platform.
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- Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) November 15, 2021
According to a report on the XDA Developers website, the company began testing the feature last year but encountered technical issues.
Users who have been required to verify the account by taking selfies report that the help window emphasizes that the camera scans the face from all angles.
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why the fuck is instagram making me take a video selfie in order to access my account pic.twitter.com/BxSW0Bnodt
- tender juicy tofu pup (@bettinamak) November 15, 2021
Instagram also posted on Twitter that when identifying suspicious activity of an account - such as a quick tracking of lots of profiles, they could be required to take a video of their faces.
In addition, Instagram stressed that the feature does not use face recognition technology, and stressed that company teams test the videos.
As you may recall, at the beginning of the month, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Meta, announced that the social network would stop using the face recognition mechanism in photos and videos and even delete more than a billion scanned face photos from the systems.
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