December 26, 2020 at 10:51 am PST | by Brody Levesque Instagram’s anti-LGBTQ trolls use algorithms & zap gay influencers Matthew Olshefski & Paul Castle (Photo Credit: Matthew Olshefski & Paul Castle) SEATTLE – The never-ending war against the automated fiefdom that is Instagram has once again taken another casualty as two gay Instagrammers had their account disabled with no apparent hope of appeal. The reason is that the social media company, owned by Facebook, is built on a system that makes it nearly impossible to restore an account, have a fair hearing with human interaction, or even receive email communications to dispute the company’s seemingly arbitrary decisions to disable or delete an account. There is a long history of the Instagram “systems” targeting LGBTQ people, based on the ability of online trolls to be able to manipulate those systems, In May of 2017, Joe Putignano, the author of the bestseller “Acrobaddict” and a gay man who is also a Cirque du Soleil performing artist, model, and a Broadway performer wrote in the Huffington Post, “We have learned that Instagram does not investigate pictures or accounts that get removed; it is based on an algorithm and bot from a number of…
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Instagram's anti-LGBTQ algorithms zap gay influencers
