Stroppa and his colleagues at Ghost Data Team, a cybersecurity, social-media research firm, looked into the incident and found he was far from alone. Chinese illicit factories and wholesale vendors are using the Facebook Inc app to sell fake Apple accessories such as AirPods, lightning cables, iPhone batteries and USB power adapters.
A Facebook spokesperson said buying and selling counterfeit goods on Instagram violates the company’s policies. The Ghost Data team monitored from Feb 8 to March 8 about 163 wholesale sellers of counterfeit Apple accessories on Instagram. The most wanted Apple gadgets were AirPods Pro, sold for US$25 instead of US$249 as well as Apple’s MagSafe Charger at US$5.50 instead of US$38 . The Instagram accounts in the study uploaded 50,000 sales posts in the last year, which garnered about 600,000 likes and comments.
The companies also have exchanged criticism over Apple’s plan to introduce new privacy measures to its iPhone software, which Facebook has labeled as bad for the millions of small businesses that use the social network’s targeted advertising services.
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