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Re:An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy by xkcd-sucks on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:30PM (#19608722)
"someone working at facebook" probably isn't an employee, most likely anything requiring case by case human discretion is a contractor position that pays shit.

On the other hand, this seems like a way to legitimately take your instagram career to the next level! Networking is about who you know, not about how many people you know. Knowing a Facebook verification contractor is some pretty ironclad social proof.

Re:An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy by bduerst on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:37PM (#19608779)
Yeah, I was thinking the same: most human-scalable data entry ops, like application review, is farmed out to contractors.

That said, there's no guarantee that the contractor will be assigned your application to review. Assuming there are bribes, it likely would involve multiple people which increases it's chances of being revealed and less likely to actually be happening.