{"id":12245,"date":"2021-08-25T08:34:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=12245"},"modified":"2021-08-25T08:34:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:34:44","slug":"researchers-instagram-bullied-us-into-halting-algorithmic-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/researchers-instagram-bullied-us-into-halting-algorithmic-research\/12245\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers: Instagram &#8216;Bullied&#8217; Us Into Halting Algorithmic Research"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Gizmodo, Aug 13, 2021. For the second week in a row, Facebook killed a project meant to shed light on its practices. A Berlin-based nonprofit studying the ways in which Instagram\u2019s algorithm presents content to users says parent company Facebook \u201cbullied\u201d its researchers into killing off experiments and deleting underlying data that was collected with consent from Instagram users. Algorithm Watch, as its name suggests, is involved in research that monitors algorithmic decision-making as it relates to human behavior. In the past year, the group has published research suggesting Instagram\u00a0favors seminude photographs, and that posts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/researchers-instagram-bullied-us-into-halting-algorithmic-research\/12245\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Gizmodo, Aug 13, 2021. For the second week in a row, Facebook killed a project meant to shed light on its practices. A Berlin-based nonprofit studying the ways in which Instagram\u2019s algorithm presents content to users says parent company Facebook \u201cbullied\u201d its researchers into killing off experiments and deleting underlying data that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[1097,59,878,1186,243],"class_list":["post-12245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-algorithms","tag-analytics","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-digital-platforms","tag-machine-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12249,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions\/12249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}