Fun fact, in Brazil an influencer's essay about child grooming on social media went viral last week, so much the regulation of social media platforms is back in congress' agenda. One of the points was how the social media algorithm, in fact Instagram's, quickly picked on interest in children in suggestive positions and flooded the front page with that, and how in the comments of every post had tons of pedos posting contacts for trading pictures.

Yet another evidence to the pile.

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

I think we went through this with youtube shorts when it was a newer feature. Videos of kids were hitting the front page because pedos where spending every waking moment engaging with every kid video so the algorithm boosted it, putting more vids in the fyp of pedos, which pushed more vids to the top, etc etc. Then people caught on and complained, I think paymoneywubby made a video about it and then it quietly changed.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

The timing couldn't be better.