{"id":15221,"date":"2024-07-20T20:37:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/we-unleashed-facebook-and-instagrams-algorithms-on-blank-accounts-they-served-up-sexism-and-misogyny\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T20:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T18:37:29","slug":"we-unleashed-facebook-and-instagrams-algorithms-on-blank-accounts-they-served-up-sexism-and-misogyny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/we-unleashed-facebook-and-instagrams-algorithms-on-blank-accounts-they-served-up-sexism-and-misogyny\/","title":{"rendered":"We unleashed Facebook and Instagram\u2019s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How do the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram affect what you see in your news feed? To find out, Guardian Australia unleashed them on a completely blank smartphone linked to a virgin email address.<\/p>\n<p>Three months later, without any input, they were riddled with sexist and misogynistic content.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/21\/we-unleashed-facebook-and-instagrams-algorithms-on-blank-accounts-they-served-up-sexism-and-misogyny\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/730ac82d6fdd99b0160f3046e3e578c39bb72268\/2_0_5903_3543\/master\/5903.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d711fac100434ebc6b927a12e45c179e\" title=\"We unleashed Facebook and Instagram\u2019s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny\" \/>Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>How do the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram affect what you see in your news feed? To find out, Guardian Australia unleashed them on a completely blank smartphone linked to a virgin email address.<br \/>\nThree months later, without any input, they were riddled with sexist and misogynistic content. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast How do the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram affect what you see in your news feed? To find out, Guardian Australia &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/we-unleashed-facebook-and-instagrams-algorithms-on-blank-accounts-they-served-up-sexism-and-misogyny\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We unleashed Facebook and Instagram\u2019s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}