Will what we see in IG change?

Several artists I have been following on social media have been talking about how the Instagram algorithm has been updated once again.

Now, Instagram is going to demote content they see as “ inappropriate ” even if the post does not violate the social media page’s community guidelines. This means that a post on Instagram sees as “inappropriate” will have less reach and will be filtered from Explore and Hashtags. This will affect many influencers who post content that is revealing or cause many meme pages to get less exposure.

A problem of this is that the guidelines are very vague. Some assume that since AI is involved in this process of screening content, this can be seen as trying to make the algorithm efficient and shrinking its responsibilities.

With Tumblr recently banning sexual content and now with Instagram lowering the engagement of vaguely “inappropriate” content, it makes raises the question if this is a trend we could expect from other social media platforms.

Reference: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/10/instagram-borderline/

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