Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence
www.404media.co
“Today’s algorithm showed me around 70 murders, 100+ accidents, and around 115 violence videos, is anyone on Instagram noticing it?”

If Lemmy/Pixelfed/Masto can’t capitalize on this we fucked up.

EDIT: realized it might be email/paywalled. In short, the IG algorithm started showing a huge number of gruesome murder videos to random users for seemingly no reason.

  • sp3ctr4lEnglish
    42•1 day ago

    I keep fucking forgetting 404 media is a legit news source and I’m not actually looking at a parody news/onion style community.

    • AmonEnglish
      8•24 hours ago

      Named like one too