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Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

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Re: Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

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Post by throwway120385 »

gigatexal wrote: post #3

Maybe social media was a mistake. Oh well… Pandora’s box and all that Congress won’t do anything; it’s too mired in infighting and lobbyists. And these companies’s better angels won’t do anything about this.

Maybe using opaque algorithms to score and assign prominence to specific content based on ill-defined metrics like "engagement" was a mistake.

Re: Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

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Post by cue_the_strings »

I'm genuinely curious, how old were you when you were first exposed to sexual content? I think I was like 7 or 8.

Like, we had a channel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTV_Palma) publicly broadcasting porn after midnight (I don't remember watching that) and all the older (~15YO) kids around the neighborhood were collecting porn magazines from who knows where and hiding them around in "caches".

I remember all the older kids being really excited about it, and us younglings being curious but grossed out. There was some pressure to pretend you were interested, kids love pretending they're more grown up than they are. Funnily enough, I remember having the same feeling about football world cup, like not getting the whole fuss about it, but being expected to be interested.

Couple years later, I naturally found out what they were excited about... For football I never did, though.

Re: Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

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Post by rdtsc »

> In one clip that Instagram recommended to a test account identified as 13 years old, an adult performer promised to send a picture of her “chest bags” via direct message to anyone who commented on her video. Another flashed her genitalia at the camera.

When it comes encryption and privacy the legislators just can't wait to jump in an "save the children", let's see how vigorous they are going to be investigating and prosecuting Meta for showing inappropriate things to children.

> On TikTok [...] new teen test accounts that behaved identically virtually never saw such material—even when a test minor account actively searched for, followed and liked videos of adult sex-content creators.

Well, isn't that embarrassing? The evil TikTok they are trying hard to ban, and for good reasons I think, is doing a better job "protecting our children" than Meta.

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