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Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 month ago by Powderhorn to c/technology

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Guardian link in case folks don't want to provide a burner email.

I've never used Instagram, so I was spared, but this sounds like hell.

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[–] Alice 4 points 1 month ago

Man... This was actually the thing that pushed me to delete Twitter a while back, algorithm error was feeding people gore. I never even saw any of it, but the anxiety of trying to avoid it wasn't worth it.

The way things are going, I predict by 2026 my screen time will be down to zero hours.