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Instagram Pushes Sexualized Content on 13-Year-Olds Within Minutes of Logging In, Studies Show (arizonasuntimes.com)

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Instagram recommends sexualized content to young teenagers within minutes of their first log in, according to studies from The Wall Street Journal and Northeastern computer-science professor Laura Edelson.

The studies, which consisted of scrolling through Instagram Reels using new test accounts with listed ages of 13, found that adult sex-content creators appeared in the test accounts’ feeds in as little as three minutes, according to The Wall Street Journal. Additionally, if a test account chose to skip other forms of content and watch sexually suggestive content to completion, its feed would be dominated by sexualized content in under 20 minutes.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I always talk about my experience with Facebook. I didnt like Facebook and didn't use it hardly ever. I'm off of pretty much every big tech site now. That's neither here nor there though, the important thing is that I didn't go on the app much. So it'd constantly do the "do you know this person?" With pretty girls. There'd be dozens of them.

Sex sells, and meta sells sex.