Instagram will ask your race
Instagram is taking this potentially controversial measure to study how different groups experience the platform, the company says in a blog post reported by The Verge.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a video message that collecting the data will help the platform look for ways to improve Instagram for users. “If we’re going to make sure that Instagram is fair and equitable as an experience, we need to understand how it is working for different communities,” he says.
Instagram says individual responses will not be linked to user accounts and that the company will only get aggregated data stored across a handful of research institutions, including Texas Southern University, University of Central Florida, and Northeastern University.
Civil rights groups and other advocates have long called on Facebook and other social media platforms to examine how its systems affect people of color.
A Washington Post report in 2021 detailed how poorly Meta – which owns Instagram and Facebook – worked on removing hate speeches, not sharing them with civil rights groups.
Source: The Verge
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Instagram is taking this potentially controversial measure to study how different groups experience the platform, the company says in a blog post reported by The Verge.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a video message that collecting the data will help the platform look for ways to improve Instagram for users. “If we’re going to make sure that Instagram is fair and equitable as an experience, we need to understand how it is working for different communities,” he says.
Instagram says individual responses will not be linked to user accounts and that the company will only get aggregated data stored across a handful of research institutions, including Texas Southern University, University of Central Florida, and Northeastern University.
Civil rights groups and other advocates have long called on Facebook and other social media platforms to examine how its systems affect people of color.
A Washington Post report in 2021 detailed how poorly Meta – which owns Instagram and Facebook – worked on removing hate speeches, not sharing them with civil rights groups.
Source: The Verge
