One Woman Got Facebook to Police Opioid Sales On Instagram
One Woman Got Facebook to Police Opioid Sales On Instagram
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
April 11, 20187m 1s
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Show Notes
Eileen Carey says she has regularly reported Instagram accounts selling opioids to the company for three years, with few results. Last week, Carey confronted two executives of Facebook, which owns Instagram, about the issue on Twitter. Since then, Instagram removed some accounts, banned one opioid-related hashtag and restricted the results for others. Searches for the hashtag #oxycontin on Instagram now show no results.
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