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

Re:Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women by manigandham on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:30AM (#23525144)
This seems rather thin on describing the feeds that these users are following. How "diverse" are they? What's that even mean? Did they check which posts are getting the most interactions (by their other followers)?

Unless these posts are completely new, how can they know that this isn't Instagram prioritizing the posts that already have the most engagement organically?

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Re:Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women by n_kb on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:30AM (#23525149)
We didn't have enough data to test these hypotheses. If more people contribute their data, we'll be able to test that: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/instagram-algorithm/
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Re:Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women by manigandham on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:33AM (#23525161)
That's a major missing hypothesis that seriously undermines your conclusion.

Why do you need me to share data at all? Just create brand new accounts and test what they see in a more controlled manner. Then you'll be able to test what's recommended from the same accounts over time while building any specific profiles yourself.

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Re:Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women by disgruntledphd2 on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:55AM (#23525285)
That's against FB's and IG's terms of service, so as an investigative outlet, they can't really do that and then promote the results.
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