A couple of months after Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman had a stroke in May, his Republican opponent and former TV personality Mehmet Oz posted a link to his more than 3 million Twitter followers. “Hoping to make it to a *Fetterman for Senate* campaign event? Details are linked below!”

The website, paid for by Oz’s campaign, depicted Fetterman as an overweight, shirtless and “lazy” “basement bum” as he recovered. Fetterman returned to the campaign trail in mid-August and leads Oz, who’s been endorsed by Donald Trump, in the latest polls. 

The move instantly became the subject of national talk shows, cementing social media even further as America’s latest battleground ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. And that battle is turning bleak.

Many candidates are now following in the steps of Trump, whose frequent harassing, bullying and rule-breaking posts to Twitter turned the political world upside down during his 2016 bid for the White House and then his four years in office. As a result, political and social media researchers say, the midterm elections have seen Trump-like behavior become the norm rather than the outlier. Candidates and elected officials are more often taking to Twitter to spread lies and disinformation, to attack their perceived enemies, and to troll fellow politicians. 

Further, a majority of Republican nominees on the ballot for this November’s midterm elections have denied or questioned the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, according to a report from the Washington Post, posing a threat to America’s democratic principles.  

On some extremist-filled alternatives like Gab and Telegram, candidates are calling for civil war and advocating violence against the government while they echo Trump’s rhetoric that their political opponents are evil.

“Time to take the gloves off,” Florida Republican congressional candidate Laura Loomer wrote on the social networking apps Gab and Telegram in August after a scandal over Trump’s reported hiding of top-secret government documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence and golf club triggered a raid from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Loomer, who’s described herself as “pro-white nationalism” and a “#ProudIslamaphobe,” continued to attack the FBI even after the Department of Justice said it found many of the US government’s most sensitive secrets at Trump’s complex, despite his staff’s declarations they’d already been returned. 

“If you’re a freedom loving American, you must remove the Words decorum and civility from your vocabulary,” Loomer wrote. “This is a WAR!” She was banned from Twitter in 2018 for violating the site’s rules against hateful conduct. 

Just south of her, Republican Luis Miguel, a candidate for the Florida House of Representatives, took it a step further. “Under my plan, all Floridians will be able to shoot FBI, IRS, ATF, and all other federal troops on sight,” Miguel tweeted. “Let freedom ring.”

These posts are extreme, and in Miguel’s case got him reportedly banned from Twitter. Both candidates lost their primary bids. They also didn’t respond to requests for comment. But experts say their approach to social media follows a pattern of dangerous internet-grown fanaticism invading the political world, particularly on Twitter.

People may turn to massive platforms such as Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to get the latest news on their favorite celebrities, talk about big sports games or participate in the hottest new trend. But Twitter in particular has solidified its foothold in American politics, turning into a crucial tool for lawmakers to communicate with both their constituents and the media organizations that follow them. And the results have dramatically reshaped the political process as well.

“In the last 10 years, we’ve seen an increase in the amount of resources devoted to social media,” said Bradford Fitch, head of the nonpartisan Congressional Management Foundation, which works with lawmakers’ offices to help improve how they operate. Congressional offices now typically have two people devoted to media, rather than one person a decade ago, he added. And more lawmakers are now posting to their accounts, rather than having aides do it for them. 

“On some level because it hits and accelerates the national psyche,” he said. “We are seeing over time, the incentives are for members of Congress to be outrageous.”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, one of Twitter’s most-followed users who’s finalizing a $44 billion purchase of the company, has said he plans to remove the few guardrails Twitter has to discourage harassment and bad behavior. Such a move has been widely criticized by civil rights and anti-hate groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, who say Twitter needs more moderation, not less.

Of course, social media didn’t create hyper-partisan lawmakers. Congress has over the years been home to plenty of bullies, conspiracists and other unsavory types. In the 18th century, for example, two lawmakers got into a brawl on the floor of the House of Representatives over the country’s diplomatic approach to France. In the 19th century, one senator drew a pistol and pointed it at his rival in the Senate chamber during a debate over slavery. Though today’s antics are comparatively tame, there are still plenty of lawmakers who pushed conspiracy theories about everything from climate change to the racist lie Trump himself promoted that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the US, thus disqualifying him from public office.

Meanwhile, attention online isn’t a guarantee of success. Freshman North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn quickly became a right-wing social media star when he was sworn in as one of the youngest lawmakers ever. Though he’d become a celebrity, controversy soon followed. He lost his seat to a lesser-known Republican primary opponent in May.

Social media has even changed how lawmakers communicate when they’re at home and at the US Capitol. Fitch’s research found that members are much more partisan on social media when they’re in DC, rather than the people-pleasing persona they take on at home. 

Republican strategists have said social media offers another telling benefit. Posting online allows politicians to circumvent traditional news organizations that often ask questions and hold them accountable for whether they’re spreading a lie or telling the truth.

Social media wave

Trump’s 2016 campaign and his four years as president ushered in a new era of extremism among lawmakers, but he wasn’t the first elected official to use social media. 

Most historians and industry experts point back to Barack Obama, whose 2008 presidential campaign used websites and social media to share videos watched by more than 50 million people on YouTube alone, according to researchers at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Obama’s campaign also sent out messages to its 13 million-member-strong email list, created a specialized volunteer social network with more than 2 million profiles and took in more than $500 million in online donations. 

Obama’s messages weren’t extreme like Trump’s. Obama’s team treated social media as more an arm of his presidency than a window into his mind. Trump tweeted about everything from discussing the latest TV ratings to attacking immigrants to dismissing gay rights, as well as making threats of military action that could trigger a nuclear war. 

Many of Trump’s pronouncements were quickly labeled as racist, sexist and anti-Muslim, but that only appeared to strengthen his appeal. “He was the one saying the things people were thinking,” said Mike Rothschild, a journalist whose book The Storm Is Upon Us dissects the social media-fueled conspiracy theory QAnon, which focuses on Trump’s rumored efforts to fight his perceived enemies. “It’s the politicizing of everything.”

At first, Republicans in DC scoffed at Trump’s style. But after he won the presidency in 2016, they began to emulate his approach. And many of them received similar attention too.

On Jan. 3, 2021, Lauren Boebert, a little-known freshman congresswoman and owner of a gun-themed bar from Rifle, Colorado, posted a campaign-style video to Twitter after arriving in Washington, DC. In it, she confidently walks down a Capitol Hill street with a gun on her hip. 

“Even though I now work in one of the most liberal cities in America, I refuse to give up my rights, especially my second amendment rights,” she can be heard saying amid rock ‘n’ roll-inspired background music. “I will carry my firearm to DC and in Congress.”

It was effective. The 33-year-old congresswoman racked up more than 6 million views, over 10,700 retweets and 51,300 likes.

Boebert and her colleagues like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have not just used their accounts to stake out positions and attack critics but also to regularly fundraise and sell merch too. Greene moved many of her posts to the messaging app Telegram after Twitter banned her account earlier this year for repeatedly spreading COVID disinformation. A hat she sold after the Trump raid declared, “Defund the FBI.” 

Boebert, Greene and Cawthorn were among the 147 Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election results on Jan. 6, 2021. 

Not all lawmakers are using Twitter to harass colleagues or spread lies. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a notable liberal star, has also become a national figure in large part because of her Twitter and Instagram use. She typically posts about key moments from congressional hearings, her positions on important issues, clap-backs at critics and the occasional personal moment, like her success playing the online battle game League of Legends. 

But what’s stood out about an increasing number of lawmakers, Rothschild says, is that they’re not just extending political debates and their process to the online world. Many of them are on the extreme right, and they’re posting wild comments like Boebert’s promise to carry her gun on Capitol Hill. The posts speak to their base and grab attention from critics, whose outrage often helps drive their message even further.

“You’re seeing this filter down to state and local council meetings, where people show up and spout crazy stuff and it goes viral,” he added. “It turns everything into a Twitter argument.”

Social media frenzy

A lawmaker’s ability to grab attention on social media may be a critical part of campaigning, but it’s not a guaranteed path to success. Some lawmakers have gone from shining stars to sudden flameouts, in part because of their bombast.

One such member was Cawthorn, the far-right representative from North Carolina who quickly drew a following for sharing conspiracy theories on his social media accounts, including some related to QAnon. Cawthorn focused so much on messaging that he told Republican colleagues, “I have built my staff around comms rather than legislation,” according to a 2021 memo obtained by Time magazine.

But he also had Trump’s habit of making comments that were later criticized as false or misleading, including his own admission that a campaign video ad claiming he had planned to serve in the Navy “with a nomination to the US Naval Academy in Annapolis” wasn’t true. Shortly after he accused other Republican lawmakers of participating in drug-fueled orgies earlier this year, he lost his seat to a nationally unknown primary challenger. He’ll leave office in January.

Meanwhile, Twitter permanently suspended Trump from its site after his fiery rhetoric, threats and efforts to overturn his loss of the 2020 presidential election helped to fuel the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress. And Greene was stripped of her committee assignments in February after her apparent support for violence against her political opponents.

Lawmakers appear to be shifting strategy in response. Both Trump and Greene have decamped to alternative social networks. Trump built his own Truth Social, which allows him to post whatever he wants though it bans many of his critics.

Others like Loomer and Greene, meanwhile, have begun relying on peer-to-peer messaging apps like Telegram, which aren’t as public facing as a Twitter account but also don’t draw as much criticism or moderation either. “They can be easily forwarded, they’re targeted to supporters, and they aren’t easily tracked,” said Betsy Sigman, a distinguished teaching professor emeritus at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

For now, at least, candidates like Pennsylvania’s Oz appear focused on mainstream social media apps like Twitter and Instagram. That’s where Oz has continued posting articles and videos attacking Fetterman’s stroke recovery.

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Back in 2007, David Barnard’s plans for buying his first iPhone were simple. He was going to walk up to AT&T store during the weekend and buy one. That’s it.

But his brother Sam convinced him otherwise. 

It took a simple phone call to persuade David to drive to the Apple Store in San Antonio and wait in line, and be one of the very first people to buy one.

That iPhone launch has always been a treasured memory for David, who was captured by a San Antonio Express-News photographer as he, his brother and sister-in-law were standing at the front of the line and as they entered the store. David’s reaction shortly after getting his hands on the coveted device ended up in the newspaper.

The iPhone launches took on an additional layer of meaning after Sam passed away from cancer in 2015.

“We fought like cats and dogs as kids, and then we started to kind of bond around being Mac nerds,” David says. 

Fifteen years later, David is still a self-professed “hopeless fanboy,” but much of everything else has changed. As the iPhone went mainstream, Apple turned from an underdog to a titan of industry. Its sales jumped more than 15-fold to $366 billion last year, up from $24 billion for all of the iPhone’s launch year in 2007.

See also: iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max Review: Welcome to Apple’s Dynamic Island

The tech industry’s grown alongside Apple as well. Back in 2007, billions of people were online and using computers, but today the scale is much larger. Facebook, now the world’s largest social network with more than 2.9 billion users logging each month, counted fewer than 100 million back then. And the global smartphone market was less than 10% the size it is today.

Yet those iPhone lines aren’t what they used to be.

Industry watchers, historians and analysts agree there are many reasons the lines no longer materialize like in years past. One reason is e-commerce, which today allows people like Barnard to buy their iPhones online and easily have them shipped to their doorstep. Smartphones have also become so mainstream, there isn’t as much cachet in being the first on your block with the latest gadget.

We have more complex feelings about the tech industry than we did back then too. The past few years, tech companies have been awash with controversies regarding how they handle (or mishandle) our personal privacy, how they’ve helped create vast government surveillance networks, or how they’ve allowed shocking amounts of hate and violence to spring from their products.

See also: iPhone 14 Review: A Good Upgrade for Most People

Today, we’re only just beginning to reckon with the aftereffects of putting internet-connected supercomputers in our pockets.

“The smartphone itself is a device loaded with positive and negative association,” said Margaret O’Mara, a history professor at the University of Washington and author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America.

To be sure, Apple is only one company, even if it is the world’s most highly valued one at about $2.45 trillion. Regulators and lawmakers around the world are generally more focused on reining in peers like Facebook parent Meta, Google and YouTube parent Alphabet, Amazon and Twitter, whose platforms and services have helped embolden people seeking to tear down modern democracy itself.

Still, O’Mara says, even if there are fewer lines outside Apple Stores, the diehards were still there for the iPhone 14 launch Friday. Others, meanwhile, have moved online, to social networks and live streaming platforms, where they share, debate, discuss and obsess.

“There are still very intense and passionate fandoms with an eagerness to be the first in line, so to speak, or to be engaged,” she said.

Getting excited

Bob O’Donnell never stood in line for an Apple device, but he did go to book release parties for the Harry Potter series with his kids. “It was an event,” he said.

A longtime industry analyst and now founder of Technalysis Research, O’Donnell said it’s just harder to generate those levels of excitement for a lot of things, let alone a tech gadget. “Literally, everyone has a smartphone now, and so now it’s not as special or unique,” he added.

Still, he says, Apple may be able to draw those lines again if it ever gets around to releasing its long-rumored headset, particularly because virtual reality has struggled to live up to its hype.

John Maeda says Apple goggles may not bring out the crowds, but the even-longer-rumored Apple Car would. The technologist and author, who’s worked at MIT Media Lab and Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, among other places, said what’s helped Apple stand out is its ability to build well-designed products with similarly well-written software to power them. “Companies that can do both are rare,” he said.

It’s also why people like David Barnard are still excited about iPhones 15 years after the first one landed on store shelves. Shortly after the iPhone launched, Barnard began shifting his career to app development, which eventually led him to his current job as a developer advocate at app sales platform RevenueCat. Barnard eagerly preordered the iPhone 14 Pro a week before its debut, and said he’s looking forward to trying the Dynamic Island, a new way to switch between apps at the top of the screen.

And if he hadn’t been able to get an iPhone delivered to his home, Barnard said you’d probably have found him in line with a couple friends outside an Apple Store.

“I might complain on Twitter, but I would do it,” he said. “And I would be happy and excited to do it, because it is an experience.”

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When you use an iPhone app for the first time, you might be asked to give the app access to other features on your phone like your camera. If you’re like me and just want a new app to work you’ve probably tapped “Allow” without a second thought. However, you might not realize that tapping “Allow” gives the app access to other information on yourself and those closest to you. 

Those apps could be sharing your data with digital marketing and ad tech companies without your knowledge. Companies like Apple and Facebook have faced lawsuits and fines for allegedly misusing customer data.

If you’ve granted a third-party iPhone app certain permissions, you can revoke them at any time. Here’s how to stop third-party apps from accessing your data.

How to change third-party app permissions

Here’s how to change permissions in iOS 15 and later: 

1. Tap Settings on your iPhone.

2. Tap Privacy.

In the Privacy menu you can select functions like Contacts, Photos and Camera to see which third-party apps have requested permission to access this information. Tapping Contacts might show that a note taking app has access to the names and numbers of people in your contacts list. You can tap the slider next to these apps to halt access.

More in the Privacy menu

In addition to revoking app permissions in the Privacy menu, you can also customize which apps can access your location data. If you tap Location Services near the top of the menu, you can turn these services on or off for all or some apps on your phone. You can also tap the Share My Location menu to enable or disable Find My iPhone, as well as with which contacts you share your location.

There’s also an option in the Privacy menu called Apple Advertising. Tap this to view Apple’s ad targeting information, and turn these personalized ads on or off. Apple said turning personalized ads off will make ads you see in the App Store, Apple News and Stocks less relevant to you, but it might not reduce the number of ads you see in those apps.

For more, check out how to stop iPhone apps from tracking you, how to use Sign In With Apple to improve your privacy and the best iPhone VPNs. 

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Google will have to face the bulk of a multistate antitrust lawsuit that accuses the tech giant of reaching an illegal deal with online ad rival Facebook.

The lawsuit, filed in 2020 by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 16 states or territories, alleges that Google entered into a secret agreement, codenamed Jedi Blue, with Facebook in 2018 that would allegedly give the social network an illegal advantage in the search giant’s online advertising auctions. Facebook is not a party to the lawsuit.

Google had sought dismissal of the lawsuit, arguing that the conduct the states described is legal. However, US District Judge P. Kevin Castel for Southern New York ruled Tuesday that lawsuit can proceed, although he did dismiss one claim that alleged the deal was an unlawful restraint of trade, saying “there is nothing inexplicable or suspicious” in what led the companies to enter into the agreement. 

Google’s massive ad tech business has been under scrutiny from regulators in the US and EU. Google reportedly offered to allow third-party ad platforms on YouTube in an attempt to settle an ongoing antitrust investigation by the European Union without paying a hefty fine.

Google said Castel’s decision highlighted the flaws in Paxton’s lawsuit.

“As we’ve long said, advertising technology is a fiercely competitive industry — and our products increase choice for publishers, advertisers and consumers while enabling small businesses to affordably find new customers,” Google said in a statement.

Paxton’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The original lawsuit accused Alphabet-owned Google of harming competitors by engaging in “false, deceptive, or misleading acts” while operating its online ad exchange. It also alleged that Facebook illegally teamed up with the search giant, one of it biggest competitors in digital advertising.

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A video of Meta’s next virtual reality headset may have surfaced online Sunday. The clip of the purported headset, posted to Facebook by video creator Zectaruiz Gaming, shows off the design and packaging of a “Meta Quest Pro.” 

The headset appears to resemble Project Cambria, Meta’s next virtual reality headset previously teased by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. 

The video shows a black plastic headset and two controllers being removed from its packaging. The headset has three cameras on the front, while the controllers are shown without their hollowed-out loop design. 

The video comes one month ahead of Meta Connect, the company’s annual virtual reality conference on Oct. 11. Project Cambria is expected to debut at this event with a higher price tag and more advanced specs than Meta’s current headset, the Meta Quest 2. 

Meta didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. 

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Meta Connect, the tech giant’s annual virtual reality conference, will take place on Oct. 11 this year, the company said on Tuesday. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the event in a Facebook post, saying simply “See you at Meta Connect on Oct 11.”

The site for the virtual event teases that people will be able to “discover how the metaverse is being built by many and why collaboration is the key to it all.” Meta said it’ll also offer a look at progress the company has made as well as at what’s to come in the near and far future. 

At last year’s event, Zuckerberg revealed his company’s new name, Meta, a nod to its focus on building the metaverse. “This is the next chapter of our work, and, we believe, for the internet overall,” Zuckerberg said at the time. 

Zuckerberg also teased Project Cambria, the company’s next virtual reality headset, which is expected to be more advanced and more expensive. In August, Zuckerberg said that the headset would come out in October and that more details would be revealed at Connect. 

The virtual event will be livestreamed on the Reality Labs Facebook page at 7 a.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT on Oct. 11. 

See also: Best VR Headsets of 2022

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Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has agreed to a $37.5 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit accusing the company of violating users’ privacy by tracking their movements without permission. 

Plaintiffs in Lundy et al vs. Meta Platforms claim the social media platform collected location data even when users turned off their phones’ location services setting, violating both California law and Facebook’s own privacy policies.

The settlement, filed Aug. 22 in San Francisco federal court, still needs final approval by a judge before eligible users can receive their share of any cash payout.

Meta didn’t respond to a request for comment on the case. In court papers, however, it said agreeing to the deal was not an admission of any wrongdoing. The company previously agreed to a $90 million settlement in June following accusations it tracked users’ online activity on other sites even after they logged off Facebook. Earlier this year, Meta settled a $650 million class action case claiming Facebook’s facial recognition scans violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. Read on to find out what Facebook’s location tracking case is about, who is eligible for a payment and how to claim money.For more on class action lawsuits, see if you’re eligible for a payout from T-Mobile’s $350 million data breach settlement, AT&T’s $14 million hidden-fee case or Roundup weed killer’s $45 million settlement. 

What is Facebook accused of?

A class action lawsuit filed in 2018 in the US District Court’s Northern District of California accuses Meta of recording Facebook users’ physical location without permission, using their IP address to infer their position in order to serve them targeted ads. 

“Facebook has been covertly obtaining detailed location information from users regardless of whether a user has opted in or opted out on his or her device,” the complaint read. It wasn’t until the EU began enforcing the wide-ranging General Data Protection Regulation in 2018 that Facebook “realized that it had to come clean about its data collection practices in its data policy,” according to the complaint, which stated Facebook had previously specifically claimed that collection of any location information was opt-in.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told Congress in 2018 that the company used shared location data “to help advertisers reach people in particular areas.”  

“For example, if people have shared their device locations with Facebook or checked into a specific restaurant, we can show them ads from an advertiser that wants to promote its services in their area or from the restaurant [itself],” he said.

Who’s eligible for money in the location tracking settlement?

A preliminary settlement was filed in San Francisco federal court on Aug. 22. If it receives final approval from a judge, the settlement will cover anyone with a Facebook account since Jan 30, 2015.

How much could I get?

It’s not clear how much individual class members would receive yet, though 30% of the proposed settlement could go to the plaintiffs’ legal fees, according to court documents.

How would eligible Facebook users get paid?

Eligible class members will be able to file a claim via a yet-to-be-launched settlement website, according to the filing, and then receive payment by check or direct deposit.

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Meta is winding down its Nextdoor-like Facebook expansion Neighborhoods, which sought to connect users who lived near each other, but never exited the testing phase.

Neighborhoods launched in May 2021 as a clear rival to Nextdoor, expanding on Facebook Groups with more functionality to find other nearby users, businesses and associations. The feature had been active in several cities in the US, such as Charlotte, North Carolina; San Diego; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Newark, New Jersey, as well as in Canada.

“When we launched Facebook Neighborhoods, our mission was to bring local communities closer together. We’ve learned the best way to do this is through groups, and have decided to end our test of Neighborhoods,” Meta spokesperson Leah Luchetti said over email.

Instead, Meta will point users to Facebook Groups relevant to their interests and location. Ultimately, this is where Facebook will focus on, abandoning local-only Neighborhoods to direct users to Groups they can find through discovery in search. There, users can connect and discuss in subgroups called Channels.  

Meta’s retreat comes as Nextdoor has adopted more social features, like connecting users so that their activity shows up in news feeds. That comes at its own cost as chats over local issues get so heated that Nextdoor had to introduce a reminder telling users to chill out. 

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If you receive an email about becoming verified on Instagram, be careful, it may well be a scam.

Cybersecurity company Vade reported Thursday that since late July, some users have been receiving a suspicious email from hackers posing as Instagram. The email says the user’s profile has been reviewed and selected for verification. 

The email uses the subject line “ig bluebadge info” and comes from the address “ig-badges.” Some users might think the email is legitimate, since Instagram and Facebook logos are placed near the top and bottom.

“The hackers hope these tactics disguise the signs of a phishing scam, including the context of the email,” Vade wrote.

However, the email includes various misspellings and formatting errors. For example, one part of the email reads, “Thanks, you instagram team.”

A phishing scam is when hackers use bait — in this instance, the opportunity to be verified on Instagram — to trick victims into clicking a malicious link or entering personal information into a bogus form. These scams usually take place via emails, so its hard for security software to block or filter them out. 

Instagram writes in its Help Center that the verification process takes place within the app, not over email, and you have to be a public figure, celebrity or a brand to request to be verified.

The best thing to do if you receive this email: Don’t click anything in it, and delete it.

Meta, Instagram’s parent company, didn’t immediately respond to CNET’s request for comment.

For more, check out this FBI and House Committee warning about cryptocurrency fraud. And here’s how to spot a student loan relief scam.

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