Fraud Prevention with Pete Hunt

Software Engineering Daily

• Episode: Fraud Prevention with Pete Hunt
• Website: Software Engineering Daily
• Feed URL: http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/feed/podcast
• Duration: 00:58:02
• Published: 2016-11-10 11:00

When Facebook acquired Instagram, one of the first systems Instagram plugged into was Facebook’s internal spam and fraud prevention system. Pete Hunt was the first Facebook engineer to join the Instagram team. When he joined, the big problems at Instagram were around fake accounts, harassment, and large volumes of spammy comments. After seeing the internal Facebook spam prevention tools clean up Instagram, Pete decided to start a company to build

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