Instagram, YouTube—you name it. Influencers are being paid handsome sums to pitch you products in natural settings. That video you just watched? $50,000.
The food industry pays ‘influencer’ dietitians to shape your eating habits
Registered dietitians are being paid by to post videos that promote diet soda, sugar and supplements on Instagram and TikTok
Confessions of an Instagram Influencer
“Whatever you do in life, it helps to have a following.”
Instagram Is Full of Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
As other social networks wage a very public war against misinformation, it’s thriving on Instagram.
Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.
A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men (Published 2024)
Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more.
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Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media
Investigation finds AI content that purports to show genuine customers, prompting calls for greater transparency
The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful
How the domestic aesthetics of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses
Has Instagram given up on celeb deepfakes?
The Follower Factory (Published 2018)
Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market.
The Feed Is Fake
That “viral” song, movie, influencer, and celebrity drama you scrolled by recently was likely the result of a stealth marketing campaign.
I Found a Bug That Exposed Private Instagram Posts to Anyone.
In October 2025, I discovered a server-side vulnerability in Instagram that allowed completely unauthenticated access to private account…
Why Influencers Suddenly Love Facebook. (No Joke.) “It’s My Biggest Source of Income”
A quiet overhaul of the 21-year-old platform’s monetization formula is winning over a new class of content makers.
How Instagram's moderation rules are made