Source: The Guardian, August 11, 2021, “Instagram apologises after Almodóvar poster censorship row“
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Instagram helps spread anti-vaccine messages
Source: The Guardian, Aug 11, 2021, “Facebook shuts accounts in anti-vaccine influencer campaign“
Instagram forcing users into posting more video content, even as users protest against a video-focused approach.
Source: The Guardian, August 8, 2021, “Why Instagram’s creatives are angry about its move to video“
Instagram supports exploitive business more than Olympian
Source: The Guardian, August 4, 2021, “Instagram blocks Elaine Thompson-Herah for posting videos of her own golds“ ‘I was blocked on Instagram for posting the races of the Olympic because I did not own the right to do so. So see y’all in 2 days,’ [Elaine Thompson-Herah] wrote on Twitter, a reference to her appearance… Continue reading Instagram supports exploitive business more than Olympian
Instagram won’t delete antisemetic posts
Instagram continues to allow politicians to post violent propaganda, has no policy.
Instagram trying to scare users into giving up privacy, allow continued access to track & resell private user data
The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/2/22415824/facebook-instagram-notice-ios-apps-free-privacy-tracking
Advocates say kids’ Instagram product would ‘put young users at great risk’
Source: The Guardian, April 15, 2021
Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood sends letter to Mark Zuckerberg to stop Instagram for Kids
Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood, a youth advocacy non-profit, sent a letter signed by over 20 organizations, researchers, and advocates asking Mark Zuckerberg to stop development of Instagram for Kids. Read the letter, attached as a PDF to the page linked here.
Instagram promotes content related to dieting to users with eating disorders, then fixes it.
Source: BBC, April 15, 2021, “Instagram fixes mistake promoting harmful diet content“