{"id":32557,"date":"2022-09-04T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=32557"},"modified":"2022-09-04T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T22:35:09","slug":"inside-a-million-dollar-instagram-verification-scheme-propublica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2022\/09\/04\/inside-a-million-dollar-instagram-verification-scheme-propublica.html","title":{"rendered":"Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme \u2014 ProPublica"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Lying works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/instagram-spotify-verified-fake-musicians\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.assets-c3.propublica.org\/images\/articles\/verify_2000x1050.jpg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A jeweler. A plastic surgeon. An OnlyFans Model. They and others received a blue check in likely the biggest Instagram verification scheme revealed to date. After ProPublica started asking questions, Meta removed badges from over 300 accounts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/instagram-spotify-verified-fake-musicians\">Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme \u2014 ProPublica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lying works. A jeweler. A plastic surgeon. An OnlyFans Model. They and others received a blue check in likely the biggest Instagram verification scheme revealed to date. After ProPublica started asking questions, Meta removed badges from over 300 accounts. Source: Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme \u2014 ProPublica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-other-places","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8t7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32558,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32557\/revisions\/32558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}