Social network Instagram intends to return users the ability to view the news feed in chronological order. This is stated on the TechCrunch portal on Thursday, December 9.
According to the head of administration of the service, Adam Mosseri, during a hearing in the US Senate, the company believes “in increased transparency and accountability”, as well as in “more control.”
When asked whether people can use the app without being “manipulated by algorithms,” Mosseri said the company hopes to return the ability for users to view the feed in chronological order as early as 2022.
“I would like me to have a specific month to tell you the launch date, but for now we are planning the first quarter of 2022,” Mosseri quotes the “360” TV channel.
He added that the “Favorites” function may appear on Instagram, allowing users to choose the accounts that will be displayed first in the news feed, the website aif.ru writes.
As NSN recalls, Instagram removed the chronological feed of posts in 2016, replacing it with an algorithmic one. Many users reacted negatively to this principle of selection of publications, the website kp.ru writes.
On December 8, the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, testified for the first time in the US Congress and spoke about innovations for the safety of children and adolescents. According to him, the company Facebook (which includes Instagram) is aware of the “destructive consequences of their algorithms” that provoke addiction and depression of adolescents from the social network. According to him, a number of options will be created to check if the user is really old enough to use the service. There are also plans to create new technology to search for and delete accounts of users under 13 years old. Also, technologies are already being used to understand whether users are under or over 18 years old.
Source: IZ
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