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Why am I getting gore on my racism app? (www.404media.co)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by icedcoffee@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months 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...

[-] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 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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