When I first joined Instagram in ~2014, after a little bit I started getting tons of incel/RW suggestions in explorer and I couldn't for the life of me figure o

When I first joined Instagram in ~2014, after a little bit I started getting tons of incel/RW suggestions in explorer and I couldn't for the life of me figure out why. I mostly followed my IRL friends, some environmental groups, and a couple of musicians. One day I was messing around and learned you can apparently favorite/save (I can't remember anymore what they call it), and I had saved a post praising Vladimir Putin. I couldn't remember ever seeing it much more favoriting it, but as soon as I got rid of it, the algorithm slowly stopped suggesting far-right content. The actual technology plays a major role in creating polarization