Instagram ‘pods’ game the algorithm by coordinating likes and comments on millions of posts

Instagram ‘pods’ game the algorithm by coordinating likes and comments on millions of posts


Researchers at NYU have identified hundreds of groups of Instagram users, some with thousands of members, that systematically exchange likes and comments in order to game the service’s algorithms and boost visibility. In the process, they also trained machine learning agents to identify whether a post has been juiced in this way. “Pods,” as they’ve […]


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April 30, 2020 at 08:00AM

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