A vending machine in a Moscow shopping mall sells Instagram likes

Cory Doctorow 9:18 am Wed Jun 7, 2017

Journalist Alexey Kovalev is in Moscow, whence tweeted this picture of "a vending machine in a mall for buying Likes for your Instagram pics."

He added, "On offer: print your Insta pics, buy Insta/Vkontakte Likes/followers (50 rubles / ±$0.9 per 100 likes)." And more: For $850 you can buy 150,000 followers guaranteed to deliver up to 1500 Likes to each post.

Russia takes the worst excesses of capitalism to the extreme, so here's a vending machine in a mall for buying Likes for your Instagram pics pic.twitter.com/ZZt189opgd

— Alexey Kovalev (@Alexey__Kovalev) June 5, 2017

Instalike vending machine is for cheapskates. For $850 you can buy 150,000 followers guaranteed to deliver up to 1500 Likes to each post. pic.twitter.com/5V3HTQ4kfl

— Alexey Kovalev (@Alexey__Kovalev) June 6, 2017

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