Instagram's Algorithm Delivers Toxic Video Mix to Adults Who Follow Children.

Instagram's algorithm for its Reels video service has been found to deliver toxic and inappropriate content to adults who follow children on the platform, according to tests conducted by The Wall Street Journal. The content served to test accounts included sexualized videos of children, explicit adult content, and ads from major brands. The algorithm also recommended disturbing content after the test accounts followed users who engaged with sexual content related to children. Meta, the parent company of Instagram, has stated that the tests do not represent what billions of users see and that it has introduced new brand safety tools to give advertisers more control over where their ads appear. [Extracted from the article]