Instagram is the latest social media platform to have its algorithms accidentally promote hate speech and fail to filter it out. The social media platform used an offensive photo that read, “I Will Rape You” to advertise itself on Facebook, according to The Guardian.
Guardian reporter Olivia Solon recently learned that Instagram was advertising itself with a screenshot she had taken of a hateful email she had received that read, “I will rape you before I kill you, you filthy whore!” The subject line of the email was “Olivia, you fucking bitch!!!!!!!!”
Instagram reportedly turned the screenshot into an advertisement displayed to Solon’s sister on Facebook with the line, “See Olivia Solon’s photo and posts from friends on Instagram.” The...
