
Instagram has been hit by a hoax that incorrectly claims the Facebook-owned social media website is creating major changes to its terms of service.
The broadly circulated fake post warns Instagram
is changing its
privacy policy and will create public all of users’
photos, as well as deleted
messages. It additionally claims the site can “use” users’ photos against them in court, and
says users got to repost
the image so as to forestall Instagram from taking
action.
The hoax post went viral earlier this
week, with Energy Secretary Rick Perry sharing the post on his Instagram
and Twitter accounts. He later deleted the Instagram post once acknowledging in a comment that the image
was faux.