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A comment on Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women. Parent comment

Re:Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:20AM (#23525081)
The article points to a Facebook patent for an "engagement metric" created at time of posting (that is, before user interaction) which specifically calls out "state of undress" as a factor to consider:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H....

...and this metric is used to determine what gets shown in people's feeds.

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Re:Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women by y04nn on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:30AM (#23525141)
The patent link was not working for me, here is an alternative: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8929615B2/
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Re:Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women by blaser-waffle on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:09AM (#23528084)
They can patent an architecture?
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