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.

  • Die Martin Die@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    My mother doesn’t use Instagram, but she’s been getting videos on Facebook of people in shootouts/duels/armed robberies/etc, apparently from a brazilian (or at least Portuguese speaking) page, usually ending with someone dead.