Posted on 05/28/2022 12:03:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Persian-language content moderator for Instagram and a former content moderator have said Iranian intelligence officials offered them money to remove Instagram accounts of journalists and activists.
"I was offered 5,000 to 10,000 euros [$5,350-$10,700; £4,250-£9,000] to delete an account. They were especially after removing Masih Alinejad," the former reviewer told BBC Persian.
Ms Alinejad is an Iranian-American author and activist. Last year, the US justice department said Iranian officials sought to lure the New York-based journalist to a third country to kidnap her.
Both content moderators also accused some Iranian colleagues of exhibiting "pro-regime bias" when reviewing posts on the photo-sharing service.
They spoke to the BBC after many Iranian Instagram users complained that posts about recent anti-government protests in their country had been deleted. Instagram's owner, Meta Platforms, and the third-party company it uses to moderate content said there was no validity to the claims.
The protests erupted in several provinces earlier this month after the Iranian government cut subsidies for basic food items, causing prices to soar.
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I’d take the bribe. Next I’d post of Mohammed in women’s underwear.
Sounds like something they learned from libtards 🤪
There is no Persia it’s Iran. A terrorist state who wants to kill most of the people on earth and apparently Britain doesn’t understand that they don’t have an empire anymore. That’s why they keep calling that on the BBC.
Instagram’s response…
Why pay us when we’re more than willing to do it for free?
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