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Getting vaccinated against the coronavirus makes your body magnetic, one post warned. Another, citing the “World Hoax Organization,” claimed the COVID-19 vaccines have gone through “fuck all tests for safety and effectiveness.” A third suggested Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci tried to “kill everyone with a Plandemic.” Others pushed similarly baseless nonsense.
I came across each of these falsehoods over the past few days while scrolling through Instagram. They weren’t shared by accounts I follow — all appeared in my Explore feed, the algorithmically curated collection of public content that Instagram serves to its users. The app’s recommendation engine is designed to show us whatever kind of content it determines will be most likely to hold our attention, based on our online behavior. Instagram recently encouraged users to think of this system “like a perfect pair of jeans, tailored just for you.”