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Report: Instagram's algorithm pushes certain users to COVID-19 misinformation - UPI.com - 0 views

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  • Instagram's algorithm recommended new users following COVID-19 misinformation to more of the same amid the pandemic, a report said Tuesday.
  • Instagram's algorithm has been "pushing radicalizing, extremist misinformation to users,"
  • as the pandemic swept the world, Instagram launched a new feature encouraging users to view conspiracy theories and lies about COVID and vaccines," Ahmed told The Guardian. "This feature was created in the name of profit, to keep people scrolling so more adverts could be served to them."
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  • "We share the goal of reducing the spread of misinformation, but this research is five months out of date," a spokesperson for Instagram's parent company Facebook said in a statement, The Guardian reported. "It also uses a sample size of just 104 posts, compared to the 12m pieces of harmful misinformation about vaccines and COVID-19 that we've removed from Facebook and Instagram since the start of the pandemic."
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