Instagram algorithm "bug" favored Trump over Biden

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https://www.engadget.com/instagram-bug-heavily-favored-trump-content-over-biden-172758201.html

Buzzfeed reports that for the past two months Instagram’s algorithms have been heavily favoring content generated by the Trump reelection campaign.

Not only has the algorithm been returning more Trump-brand content on tag searches, Buzzfeed found, but that content has been overwhelmingly positive with nary a negative connotation to be seen. Specifically, a tag search for #JoeBiden returned roughly 390,000 hits when run earlier this week.

To be fair, however, Instagram’s recommendation algorithm is a bit garbage to start with.