Boom of violent content and sensitive on Instagram. From clips of killings to violence against animals to brutal road accidents and fights. The so -called Dark Web lands on the social platform of Meta and sends the algorithm that proposes the content to users. For hours, in fact, many of these have reported a serious anomaly in the reels section of the social network.
What happened
Users, through the use of other social networks, shared their pages invaded by explicitly violent content. From shootings to the filming without censorship of parties in the hospital up to Erotic content. A problem that also happens to those who have sprouted the option to limit posts NSFW (“Not Safe for Work”, that is, potentially sensitive content). To worry, however, is above all the spread of these contents. The clips are in fact shown and proposed to users with great frequency and without any kind of control. Therefore independently of their interests and navigation habits. This suggests a possible malfunction of the algorithm that manages the suggested content, while raising a question at the same time: what are the actual destination of a destination to control your system? The episode does nothing but increase the doubts about the safety of the Instagram algorithm.
The causes of this malfunction are manifold. One of these could be the update of the same algorithmmade more free and less restrictive with a certain category of content. It is not yet clear where these contents come from, but some hypotheses indicate that they may have been loaded with sources related to the Dark Web.
The apologies of goal
Meanwhile Meta, the company owner among other things of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, apologized for “a mistake” – so he defined it – that he made many videos with violent content in the Instagram feeds of many users suddenly appear, including minor users. Meta, speaking with CNBC, confirmed the problem and apologized to the users.
“We are solving A problem that caused the display of content in the Instagram Reels feed that should not have been recommended to some users. We apologize for the mistake“A spokesman said, which however did not specify the nature of the error.