Instagram famous: how dangerous can it be?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The story of Iraqi model Tara Fares reveals the risks of pushing the boundaries as a high-profile influencer. Mina Al-Lami from BBC Monitoring tells us what happened to her when she crossed that invisible line.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:06.2 | Hello, I'm Tina Dehealy. You're listening to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.8 | Each day we'll be asking one big question about one big story. |
| 0:15.0 | Today it's, how dangerous is it to be insta famous? |
| 0:25.0 | She was extremely controversial. |
| 0:27.0 | She was absolutely unapologetic. |
| 0:30.0 | She said that this is the way I will continue to live and I will have no regrets |
| 0:35.3 | That's me now Lamy. She came to us with the story of Tara Farris |
| 0:39.7 | an Iraqi influencer who styled herself on the Kardashians. No one's really talking about it in the UK, |
| 0:47.2 | but what happened to her freaked people out in the Middle East. At some point we've all been there. We've all wondered if |
| 0:54.3 | we've crossed an invisible line with a tweet or an Instagram post. Well this is the |
| 0:59.2 | story of what happened to Tara when she did. |
| 1:08.0 | Here you have the jihadist media team. Mina's day job is following Jahadi media |
| 1:11.0 | for the BBC monitoring team in London. |
| 1:14.0 | So BBC monitoring, as the name suggests, it monitors the local news from other countries. |
| 1:19.0 | So that's mainstream, that's broadcast, that's social media. |
| 1:22.0 | What do you see that I wouldn't be able to see? |
| 1:25.0 | Well a lot of the censored websites because I look at jihadist media and I think you would get in trouble with the authorities if you'd look at them. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, I'm sure I would. I think you would get in trouble with the authorities if you'd look at them. |
| 1:33.2 | Yeah, I'm sure I would. |
| 1:34.6 | You monitor Iraq, but you also grew up in Iraq. |
| 1:36.7 | What was it like? |
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