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Instagram wants suspected bot accounts to provide government IDs – The Next Web

Instagram is planning to boot out suspicious accounts, including bots, by verification through government IDs. The company’s idea is to control “potential inauthentic behavior,” presumably to stop fake follower counts and likes from shady accounts. The compan…

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Instagram is planning to boot out suspicious accounts, including bots, by verification through government IDs. The companys idea is to control potential inauthentic behavior, presumably to stop fake follower counts and likes from shady accounts.
The company says most users wont be affected by this, so you wont likely get the prompt to show your ID. Through this new policy, Instagram classes dodgy accounts as those that have a majority of followers in a different country to their own. The compan…

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