AlgorithmWatch shuts down Instagram monitoring after threats from Facebook
I’ve noticed that my own Instagram feed was only showing me content from large accounts and female friends who posted bikini pics. And if I decided to keep scrolling without liking a picture it would continue showing me the same post on subsequent logins or even the second photo in the album of the post further down in the feed. The app was essentially telling me what posts to like while filtering out all the genuine content my friends were posting. So I deleted it. We need a good ole consumer boycott and government-initiated privacy probe.