Brand-New Instagram Accounts Are Pushed Toward Scantily-Clad Women and Sexist Memes

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Broken Web In an eyebrow-raising experiment that shows that social media is primed to make men more sexist, reporters at The Guardian in Australia made fake accounts for a generic male user at Instagram and Facebook and were then pushed images of women barely wearing any clothing and sexist jokes.

At first, the account on Facebook was exposed to memes and jokes from "The Office" and "Star Wars".

It's little known how this is impacting men, but we can perhaps see this effect in polls that show young men are becoming more conservative than women amid the rise of people like Tate, who know exactly how to game social networks.

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Author / Journalist: Sharon Adarlo

Category: Technology

Markets: United StatesAustralia

Topics: Instagram The digest Future Society Facebook Social media

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Published On: 2024-07-23 @ 13:06:47 (11 hours ago)

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