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n_kb

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About n_kb

Journalist at AlgorithmWatch.

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    Story in English https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/facebook-instagram-mass-...

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    It's likely that FB uses user response to posts to decide how to prioritize them. However, several patents describe systems where they analyze (using CV) and make decision on the i…

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    I think it's called "subtlety" but I'm no native speaker.

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    We didn't have enough data to test these hypotheses. If more people contribute their data, we'll be able to test that: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/instagram-algorithm/

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    We didn't have enough data to test these hypotheses. If more people contribute their data, we'll be able to test that: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/instagram-algorithm/

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    Unless your don't want to, but you are obliged to use IG because your business focuses on a demographic on which IG has a monopoly (the 15-25 demographics in the EU).

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    Of course it is. I'd even say that what we found is probably similar to the issue of offensive suggestions by search engines. A minority of Instagram users see the platform as a fr…

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    You might be surprised.

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    Look at the data file, which is linked to in the article and contains the suggestions. It's very unlikely that at least some of them are automatically generated from content found …