Instagram Is Now Banning Pickup Artists, Pranksters Who Use Meta Glasses

Instagram is banning videos filmed with Meta smart glasses that harass strangers in public, including prank videos targeting service workers and pickup-artist clips of women who may not realize they are being recorded. “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,” said Instagram head Adam Mosseri in response to a question on his Instagram stories last week. “We don’t want people to be surreptitiously taking videos of other people and haras