Threads users have jokingly jokingly joked for their recommendation algorithm from the early days of the app. Recently, some users are beginning to notice another type of strange post in their suggestions: post from random people looking for “friends”.
The post often contains selfie of young people, whose profile claims to be 18 years old. Angdgate has seen several posts seen in the threads’ related threads “features that surfaces recommended the material to the log-out users. It is not clear why these posts are seen as “related” for other popular recommended posts.
For example, About spotify from popular threads was suggested at the home feed of the threads to log out the user Chris Mesina. Clicking in the post revealed a “related” post from Threads Head Adam Moseri. However, under that post, there was another “related” post from an account claiming to be an 18 -year -old girl in the 11th grade.
For whatever reason, threads put forward many other positions in their “related threads” features. For example, the following posts were also recommended as “related” posts elsewhere in the app. A look at this user’s profile shows that they have posted the same thing – a WhatsApp link after a picture – more than 30 times in the last five days.
And what is here that Engadget’s editor-in-chief Aaron Souporis was recommended as a “related” thread “under one of my own posts when logged out recently.
Since threads have increased to more than 350 million users, it is not surprising that the platform will see the influx of spam. Meta Execue Moseri said that the company had seen An increase In July 2023, in the “spam attack”, not a long time after the service begins. Last year, the company said it was working to get engaged in control of engagement.
But when the mere appearance of spam on a platform is not unpredictable size, it is bizarre that the app is recommending these posts so many times. Meta did not answer specific questions about these posts or why they are being depicted as “related” materials, but confirmed that Spammy Post should not be painted as the recommended material in the app.
In particular, Spamy Post Meta apps are also seen as recommendations in other parts of apps. A reddit user recently noticed a strange post that appeared on Instagram as a recommendation. A woman had a selfie in this post, “I don’t need a bf 🎀 age.” A quick eye on that user’s profile shows that they have posted dozens of times with the same caption in the last week. “Every time every time the suggested threads see the window, I have to scroll through 2-4 posts before seeing some normal,” “I press’ ‘I do not want’ and report every one of me, but they still keep showing.”
This post is related to some type of ongoing spam campaign. The exact same selfie and text flagged by Redditor was shared by at least another thread account. And the discovery on the threads states that many other accounts are almost constant posting, stating that “age does not matter” or “age is not the mind of age.”
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