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Instagram Influencers Taking Followers For A Ride

The Guardian investigates a new breed of Instagram influencers and how they’re taking their followers for a ride. “Posing as ultra-wealthy kids and posting internet memes taken from [Wolf of Wall Street], its followers aggressively sign up young people to what looks like an international pyramid scheme that has helped to generate billions of pounds for large companies selling highly risky financial trading products,” it writes.

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