Instagram Reels discovered to recommend child-sexualising videos
Instagram's Reels video service serves 'explicit', ' risqué footage ' of children to followers of teen and pre-teen 'influencers', according to an experiment conducted by The Wall Street Journal . By setting up test accounts that followed young gymnasts, cheerleaders, and influencers, WSJ journalists found that Reels surfaced 'served jarring doses of salacious content to those test accounts, including risqué footage of children as well as overtly sexual adult videos.' The Journal also found that the footage was mixed in with ads for companies including Disney, Walmart, Pizza Hut, Bumble, and Match Group. Several companies said they had suspended their advertising campaigns in the wake of the publication's expose. Meta responded by telling its clients that it was investigating and that it 'would pay for brand-safety auditing services to determine how often a company’s ads appear beside content it considers unacceptable.' Sexualisation Sexualization (sexualisation in Commonwealth English) is the emphasis of the sexual nature of a behavior or person. Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 Instagram content recommend ation system Operator: Wall Street Journal Developer: Meta/Instagram Country: USA Sector: Media/entertainment/sports/arts Purpose: Recommend content Technology: Recommendation algorithm; Machine learning Issue: Safety
- Date it happened
- 2023-11-01
- Organisation involved
- Wall Street Journal
- Product, system or model
- Reels
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