Beverly Hills cops try to weaponize Instagram’s algorithms in failed attempt to thwart live streamers
Tuesday, 9 February 2021
We don’t know if Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD) Sergeant Billy Fair practices Santeria (or owns a crystal ball), but we know he listens to the Sublime song of the same name. We know this because he’s become a viral sensation on Instagram after blasting the 1990’s hit at a citizen in a misguided attempt to get Instagram’s algorithm to take down a live stream due to copyright infringement. Ironically, the officer of the law isn’t very clear on the social media site’s rules. But we’ll get to that in a bit. Background: This story comes to us from Vice’s…
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