This reminds me of the federal indictment against consultants bribing amazon employees.

If Instagram account takeover favors can occur, how much do they cost?

It can be incredibly difficult to get that traction - I know Patrick Grey of Risky Business has mentioned in passing that he's occasionally helped local-to-him small businesses who have been locked out of their Instagram accounts, because it's basically impossible to get assistance except through well-connected folks.

It's easy, but remember that it is not a policy team who will decide what to say publicly, but PR team, which in Facebook's case has a sociopathic/capitalist culture of putting profits above everything, and so they will decide whether confirming it in either way will generate more negative news about that event than leaving it ambiguous.