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Tag: Instagram

AlgorithmWatch Forced to Shut Down Instagram Monitoring Project After Threats from Facebook

Algorithms, Facebook, Instagram, Social Media, Transparency, User Privacy

Author: Nicolas Kayser-Bril; Publisher: AlgorithmWatch; Publication Year: 2020. The following article attempts to explore what drives the Instagram algorithm’s recommendations on people’s timelines led to a serious response form Facebook looking to shut it down.…
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IBM’s Photo-Scraping Scandal Shows What a Weird Bubble AI Researchers Live In

Artificial Intelligence, Data Scraping, Facial Recognition Systems, Flickr, IBM, Instagram, New York Times, Public Data, Wall Street Journal, Web Scraping

Author: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how in March of 2019, NBC released a story with the headline “Facial recognition ‘dirty little secret’: Millions of online photos…
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Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show

Facebook, Instagram, Teenage Girls

Author: Georgia Wells, Jeff Horwitz, Deepa Seetharaman; Publisher: The Wall Street Journal; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how internal reports at Facebook found that Instagram presented real harm to teenage girls. About 1/3…
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