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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

Published May 2, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged iOS, Privacy

Advocates say kids’ Instagram product would ‘put young users at great risk’

Source: The Guardian, April 15, 2021

Published April 25, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged abuse, body image, endangering users

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.

Published April 24, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged abuse, body image, endangering users

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“

Published April 15, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged "mistake", body image

Instagram making Instagram for Kids despite experts’ advice that doing so endangers children.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-instagram-for-children-under-13

Published March 18, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged abuse, body image, endangering users

Instagram’s algorithm favors thin, white, cisgendered people and effectively censors the rest; blames “algorithmic bias”, apologizes but nothing changes

Published in The Guardian, October 19, 2020.

Published October 19, 2020
Categorized as Article Tagged body image, fatphobic, Racism

Instagram and Facebook let neo-nazis run clothing brands on their platforms—until this article was published.

…then they deleted a few. Huffington Post: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/facebook-nazi-clothing-extremism_n_5b5b5cb3e4b0fd5c73cf2986

Published August 2, 2018
Categorized as Article Tagged Nazis, Racism

Instagram deletes photographer’s account, ignores requests for restoring account…but restores it an hour after this article was posted

PetaPixel, “Instagram Deleted My Account with 135K Followers. Zero Warning.“

Published September 14, 2016
Categorized as Article Tagged community management

Instagram “accidentally removed” Rupi Kaur’s photos showing menstruation. Twice.

Huffington Post: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rupi-kaur-period-instagram_n_6954898

Published March 27, 2015
Categorized as Article Tagged women

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