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https://www.engadget.com/instagram-bug-heavily-favored-trump-content-over-biden-172758201.html
Instagram 'bug' heavily favored Trump content over Biden for months
In yet another evidentiary blow to the conservative mythology that social media platforms are biased against them and actively silencing right-wing voices, Buzzfeed reports that for the past two months Instagrams algorithms have been heavily favoring content generated by the Trump reelection campaign.
Not only has the algorithm been returning more Trump-brand content on tag searches, Buzzfeed found, but that content has been overwhelmingly positive with nary a negative connotation to be seen. Specifically, a tag search for #JoeBiden returned roughly 390,000 hits when run earlier this week. Those results also included a significant number of hits from pro-Trump threads such as #trump2020landslide and #democratsdestroyamerica. A similar search for #DonaldTrump returned 7 million hits with virtually zero results coming from anti-Trump tags.
The Tech Transparency Project first noticed the bug and believes that it has been in effect since at least June. What weve seen with the related hashtags with Biden is that there is so much vitriol, that it appears to be benefitting President Trump, director of the Tech Transparency Project, Katie Paul, told Buzzfeed on Wednesday.
An Instagram spokesperson characterized the issue as a bug and pointed out that other non-political hashtags such as #menshair and #artofdrinks were similarly impacted. A technical error caused a number of hashtags to not show related hashtags, the spokesperson said in a Tuesday statement. We've disabled this feature while we investigate.
The Biden campaign declined to comment however a spokesperson for the Trump campaign lambasted the bug as an example of alleged bias against conservatives on social media platforms, according to Buzzfeed
https://www.engadget.com/instagram-bug-heavily-favored-trump-content-over-biden-172758201.html
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