Instagram recommendation algorithms are pushing anti-vaxx and QAnon posts, NGO report says mguenot@businessinsider.com (Marianne Guenot)
Instagram is promoting posts containing misinformation to its users, a report says.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate measured what was recommended on 15 test accounts.
The Explore and Suggested Posts features pointed to QAnon and anti-vaxx content, it noted.
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It highlighted the Explore and Suggested Posts features as the source of the recommendations.
The CCDH, a not-for-profit group in the UK and US, partnered with a youth-development agency called Restless Development to analyze the algorithms.
It asked 15 volunteers to create new accounts and follow accounts of people who disseminate anti-vaccine information, to see whether that would prompt Instagram to recommend more such content.