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Meta exec’s frantic warning about Instagram’s alarming ‘fake’ activity numbers in spotlight at FTC trial

Meta exec’s frantic warning about Instagram’s alarming ‘fake’ activity numbers in spotlight at FTC trial

An executive at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta once cited estimates that as much as 40% of all engagement on Instagram was fake, according to little-noticed documents that surfaced this week from the FTC’s landmark trial to break up the social media giant.

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