Politicians can do well on Instagram. Political posts, less so.
▻https://algorithmwatch.org/en/instagram-algorithm-politicians
An experiment by AlgorithmWatch, Groene Amsterdammer, Pointer and NOS in the Netherlands shows that Instagram probably prioritizes images of faces and pushes down images that contain text. On 5 February 2021, Daniel Koerhuis posted a selfie from the banks of the Waal river in Nijmegen, with children in the background. This was not his first shot. In the past year, Mr Koerhuis posted eleven “selfies with children” on Instagram. The other 13 posts he shared all show pictures of himself, mostly (...)
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