Instagram is booting pickup artists and pranksters using Meta’s ‘pervert’ glasses to harass strangers
Business Instagram is booting pickup artists and pranksters using Meta’s ‘pervert’ glasses to harass strangers By Marc Vartabedian Published July 24, 2026, 12:53 p.m. Add The New York Post on Google Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri has had it with the surge of obnoxious “harassing” videos shot using Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ that are flooding the social media platform – causing the executive to ban the content. “If you’re posting content that is taking advantage of people and harassing them, like a lot of these pickup line kind of videos that we’ve heard of and seen, then we’re going to take the content down,” Mosseri said in response to a question on his Instagram stories last week.
- ▪Business Instagram is booting pickup artists and pranksters using Meta’s ‘pervert’ glasses to harass strangers By Marc Vartabedian Published July 24, 2026, 12:53 p.m.
- ▪Add The New York Post on Google Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri has had it with the surge of obnoxious “harassing” videos shot using Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ that are flooding the social media platform – causing the executive to ban the content.
- ▪“If you’re posting content that is taking advantage of people and harassing them, like a lot of these pickup line kind of videos that we’ve heard of and seen, then we’re going to take the content down,” Mosseri said in response to a questio
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