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Instagram 'bug' heavily favored Trump content over Biden for months
- smt88 6y agoSkipping the question of whether this was intentional, I have other questions: 1. How do thousands of Instagram employees, including developers, use the app for months without noticing this? 2. What is the value of related hashtags anyway? I assume it makes the site more "sticky" for users, but as a user, why do I want it at all? 3. How do algorithmic recommendations not qualify as "speech", especially in situations like this? It may be computer-generated, but it still definitely leaned toward an ideological in this case. It's not like it was organically created by users and displayed, without editorial, by Instagram...