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Why am I getting gore on my racism app? (www.404media.co)
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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.

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[-] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 months ago

Oh there's plenty of porn in there. Not hard-core stuff, and done in a way to fool algorithmic detection, but it's there

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