The widely circulated post falsely warns Instagram is changing its privacy policy and will make public all of users' photos, including deleted messages.
accounts. He later deleted the Instagram post after acknowledging in a comment that the image was fake.
The fake post continues to be shared by numerous celebrities and high-profile influencers, however, including actresses Julia Roberts, Debra Messing, and Taraji P. Henson, movie producer Judd Apatow, as well as musicians Pink, T.I., and Usher. Instagram flatly denied the hoax, which has been circulated in similar forms on Facebook over the past several years.Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, also called foul on the hoax in a post on his Instagram Stories.In 2015, Facebook was forced to address a similar "privacy notice" scam making the rounds on its site. Like the Instagram hoax, the scam urged users to repost the photo to prevent Facebook from distributing users' photos, information or posts without their permission.
The privacy policy hoax has been shared numerous times, with cases being recorded as far back as 2009, according to internet rumor site
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