Instagram to Holders of Suspicious Accounts: Identify Yourselves

Potential coordinated inauthentic activity or bots are the targets

Instagram is taking steps to weed out coordinated inauthentic behavior and keep its platform bot-free.

The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network said Thursday that in cases where it sees a pattern of behavior that could potentially be inauthentic, it will require the account holder to verify their identity by submitting ID from this list.

Instagram wrote in a blog post, “We will look at a range of signals to determine if an account holder needs to confirm their information.

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