In the end, it took significant media coverage and dozens of complaints for Instagram to decide to sanction Marc Blata (Marc Singainy Tevanin, his real name), an influencer with 4.2 million subscribers on the platform to date. On January 26, the subsidiary of the giant Meta (also the owner of Facebook) announced the removal of its Instagram account, in response to a tweet published by a group of victims of influencer scams.
“The rules of our platforms are clear and prohibit fraudulent and misleading content intended to deceive our users. We have removed the Instagram account in question, along with a number of others, for violating these rules,” announces the company, in response to the collective. Help victims of influencers (AVI), questioning the practices of Marc Blata.
The latter is the object of the collective action, which brings together 88 complainants, for fraud in an organized gang and breach of trust in an organized gang. The influencer is notably accused of having spread scams based on fraudulent financial products, such as NFTs, or even through misleading trading advice.
For now, Instagram does not specify the list of other accounts that have been sanctioned, although that of another controversial influencer, Laurent Correia, is also inaccessible. With BFMTV, the platform did not want to communicate the number of sanctions taken in the past against influencers who have distinguished themselves by posting scams.
Source: BFM TV
