Posted on 06/22/2024 9:20:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Well, it shouldn't shock anyone to learn that Instagram, the popular social media platform owned by Meta, is grooming children.
Studies from The Wall Street Journal and Northeastern University computer science professor Laura Edelson found that the platform recommends sexualized content to young teens soon after they start using a new account.
Test accounts were created for the study, with the age set at 13, and it was discovered that adult content was being shown within three minutes of scrolling through Instagram Reels.
The tests, run over seven months ending in June, show that the social-media service has continued pushing adult-oriented content to minors after parent Meta Platforms said in January that it was giving teens a more age-appropriate experience by restricting what it calls sensitive content including sexually suggestive material.
Separate testing by the Journal and Laura Edelson, a computer-science professor at Northeastern University, used similar methodology, involving setting up new accounts with ages listed as 13. The accounts then watched Instagram’s curated video stream, known as Reels.
Instagram served a mix of videos that, from the start, included moderately racy content such as women dancing seductively or posing in positions that emphasized their breasts. When the accounts skipped past other clips but watched those racy videos to completion, Reels recommended edgier content.
Within three minutes of scrolling through Reels, adult sex content creators started appearing in the feeds of the test accounts. After less than 20 minutes of viewing, the test accounts' feeds were flooded with promotions from these creators, some even offering to send nude photos to users who interacted with their posts.
Curiously, Snapchat and TikTok were also tested, but didn't produce the same results.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Disgusting
“included moderately racy content such as women dancing seductively or posing in positions that emphasized their breasts”
Oh yeah I’m sure that was just forced on the boys, because no boy that age would search for that stuff, right?
Class action lawsuit incoming?
Doesn’t surprise me.
Last week I went on Facebook to get recipe ideas - the only thing I missed from Facebook after staying off it for several years. I quickly realized that the only thing besides recipes was celebrity junk. I posted that I’m really not interested in celebrities. No change.
A friend posted a photo of his dad from 5 years earlier, shortly after he was diagnosed with Alzheimers. He had been a member of the church my husband was pastor of. My friend commented how much he misses his dad, who passed away about a year before my husband died of dementia a little over a year ago. I replied that I also miss my husband a lot. So then FB blasted me with posts from guys who are looking for a woman. I posted that I am not looking for a guy; I just miss my husband.
Then they started blasting me with post after post of women with butts as big as Texas wearing only a thong, with their butts right up in the camera. I posted that I didn’t appreciate the big butts in my face, Facebook. So then they went the other direction: crotch shots. Women with their legs spread showing their crotch barely covered with underwear.
At that point I decided no recipe is worth the trouble.
My daughter said I should try Pinterest to find recipes.
I suppose it could have been an AI bot that was being stupid, but whoever programmed it is absolutely terrible at reading people, and has its “mind” in the gutter.
Not welcome in my home. Have never done anything with Instagram but if it’s run by Meta I wouldn’t trust it as far as I can throw Fat Fani Willis. And with an injured right arm, that ain’t very far.
“Within a half-hour of its creation, a new 13-year-old test account that watched only Instagram-recommended videos featuring women began being served video after video about anal sex.”
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