It's been more than a year since Instagram's pledge not to push political content on users for the sake of stoking rage and thereby increasing retention. Naturally, nothing has noticeably changed. Online racism has, in fact, only become more pervasive, with more and more people making careers out of spinning hate and farming outrage.
As long as algorithms continue to push users toward hate, spiraling them down rabbit holes and increasing their use time, this problem will worsen. You've likely seen the recent massive wave of anti-Indian rhetoric in response to Musk and Trump's spat over H-1B visas, making this specific flavor of racism a hot topic. With this in mind, political commentator and online personality Saji Sharma decided to quantify this algorithmic push toward the pipeline, recr

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