Whenever Meta is embroiled in controversy, people rush to boycott Facebook. But its other flagship property, Instagram, often seems to dodge the backlash.
Whether it was Meta suspending President-elect Donald Trump's accounts in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, numerous data privacy scandals, or the high-profile congressional hearing in 2021 in which a whistleblower testified that Meta was prioritizing profit over people, people don't want to give up their images.
But that era of Instagram...