Ontario man frustrated Meta wouldn’t pull video appearing to show drunk man fooling car ignition lock

Aaron Hagen of Bruce County, Ont., says he’s frustrated a social media video of a man appearing to trick an alcohol ignition interlock, allowing him to drive drunk, wasn’t taken down after Hagen contacted Meta with concerns it encouraged impaired driving.

Hagen said he first saw the video last week while scrolling Facebook, which presented it to him as a recommended reels video. 

The video, which had more than five million views and nearly 20,000 likes, showed a man sitting behind the wheel of a vehicle, swigging from a bottle, using a leaf blower to trick the device and then starting the ignition.

“It’s not like it’s a small, you know, ‘Five people saw it, nobody cares,’ kind of thing. A lot of people have seen this,'” Hagen said. “Why is it being promoted? Why did it ever make it past one view?”

Ignition interlock devices (IID) require a driver …