Instagram corrects an error that allowed the recommendation of violent videos in the Reels tab

The technological company Meta has admitted the existence of an error in the Instagram platform that allowed the appearance of violent videos on the Instagram Reels tab of a large number of users, including minors, and has already corrected.

Several social network users resorted to other platforms to express their concern for a recent Influence of harmful content In the service, such as dismembered, carbonized bodies or sadistic comments towards images that represented the suffering of people and animals.

Some of those affected even claimed to have seen violent videos in the Reels tab despite having activated the ‘delicate content control function’, which allows you to control the amount of delicate publications and accounts that you want to see in the searches. In addition, these videos arrived at minor users.

Instagram owner has admitted this error and apologized for it. “We have corrected a failure that caused some users to visualize content in their ‘feed’de Instagram Reels that should not have been recommended,” said a finish spokesperson with CNBC.

This media has proven on Wednesday night, in the United States, the existence of several publications that seemed to show corpses, graphic injuries and violent aggressions, labeled as ‘Sensitive content’.

The Wall Street Journal has also done, who has claimed to have found dozens of videos in which injured people appearedpublished by accounts not followed identified as ‘BlackPeoplebeinghurt’, ‘Showingrogedies’ and ‘Pophedinghub’.

This newspaper, which has also collected the statements of the Meta spokesman, has indicated that this person has clarified that the fault was not related to the decision of the company of adjust your moderation policies of content, announced earlier this year.