The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/2/22415824/facebook-instagram-notice-ios-apps-free-privacy-tracking
Category: Article
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“
Instagram making Instagram for Kids despite experts’ advice that doing so endangers children.
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.
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
Instagram deletes photographer’s account, ignores requests for restoring account…but restores it an hour after this article was posted
Instagram “accidentally removed” Rupi Kaur’s photos showing menstruation. Twice.
Huffington Post: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rupi-kaur-period-instagram_n_6954898