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==Consumer-protection incidents== | ==Consumer-protection incidents== | ||
=== Istagram shows gore and violence videos to select users (Feb. 2025) === | |||
In what Instagram calls an "error", some users were shown videos of graphic death scenes and animal abuse in their Reels feed for about a day.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Milmo |first=Dan |date=2025-02-28 |title=Meta apologises over flood of gore, violence and dead bodies on Instagram |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/28/meta-apologises-over-flood-of-gore-violence-and-dead-bodies-on-instagram |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=The Guardian}}</ref> | |||
This also serves as an example for the kind of content Meta staff has to review when flagged and raises questions about the mental health impact watching this type of content all day has on the workers tasked with content moderation. | |||
===Instagram allows AI to be trained on user data (Mar. 2023)=== | ===Instagram allows AI to be trained on user data (Mar. 2023)=== | ||