Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence
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“Today’s algorithm showed me around 70 murders, 100+ accidents, and around 115 violence videos, is anyone on Instagram noticing it?”

If Lemmy/Pixelfed/Masto can’t capitalize on this we fucked up.

EDIT: realized it might be email/paywalled. In short, the IG algorithm started showing a huge number of gruesome murder videos to random users for seemingly no reason.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Better question:

    Why is Instagram hosting horrific violence, animal abuse, murders, dead bodies, and other gore videos AT ALL?

    They aren’t rotten.com, so why host it? If you don’t host it, then you don’t need to worry about the feeds screwing up.

    Do they do porn videos too? There’s the next potential problem…