Instagram makes it easy for teens to find drugs, report finds

This also worked when searching for “oxy”—shortened slang for the opioid oxycontin—and “Xanax,” the anti-anxiety medicine. Even when the platform didn’t suggest alternatives, variants were easy to find. In another example, the platform blocked the hashtag #fentanyl, but this was easily circumvented by adding another word to the hashtag, like #fentanylcalifornia, which surfaced posts by […]

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