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Guides to automated publishing

Plain-language, citation-backed explainers of the platform systems that govern automated publishing — the rate limits, the detection layers, the originality rules. This is the research Altineris is built on, published the way we keep it internally: every claim marked documented, inference or unknown, and a number without a citation treated as a fabrication.

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LEGAL · RIGHTS · EU20 AUG 2026

Article 17, stay-down, and the EU appeal weapon

Why upload filtering is a liability defence in the EU (Article 17: license, filter, stay-down — CJEU-upheld), and the out-of-court dispute bodies that reversed 52% of platform decisions.

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INSTAGRAM · API · LEGAL20 AUG 2026

What Instagram actually allows you to automate

The one sanctioned door (official API, inside its limits), the banned doors (scraping, reverse-engineering, fake engagement), and the warning-then-permanent-ban enforcement pattern.

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RIGHTS · DETECTION · INSTAGRAM20 AUG 2026

How Meta Rights Manager actually works

Reference files, fingerprints that survive editing, audio matched independently of video, per-platform per-territory licences, and retroactive enforcement — published is not the same as cleared.

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INSTAGRAM · ORIGINALITY · REACH20 AUG 2026

Instagram’s originality rule and what it does to reach

The rolling 30-day aggregator classification, Meta’s explicit list of what does not count as original, and why file edits can’t reach an account-level judgement.

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DETECTION · RIGHTS · VIDEO20 AUG 2026

How platforms detect near-duplicate images and video

PDQ, TMK+PDQF, vPDQ and SimSearchNet++ — Meta’s published hashing family was engineered to survive re-encoding. What each system matches, and what publishers should do instead of fighting it.

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INSTAGRAM · API · QUOTA20 AUG 2026

Instagram API publishing limits, explained properly

The 100-posts-per-24-hours moving window, the two-step container model, error 479, and the 100-vs-50 discrepancy resolved — every claim cited to Meta’s own documentation.

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RIGHTS · LEGAL · DMCA19 AUG 2026

The DMCA repeat-infringer rule for automated publishers

Why platforms cannot decline to terminate repeat infringers (§512 conditions their own immunity on it), how strikes accumulate, and why "transformative" is a legal term that no codec change satisfies.

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INSTAGRAM · API · MEDIA19 AUG 2026

Instagram media specs: why uploads fail

Stories 60s/100MB vs Reels 15min/1GB, the carousel first-card crop, JPEG-only images, and the server re-encode every upload goes through — with the local preflight that catches failures early.

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