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by jandrese 56 days ago
No matter what you follow if FB thinks you are a man it's going to feed you those foreign near-porn shorts.

I'm not sure if it is just what escapes across national boundaries or if social media in other countries is just way more horny, but every time I see a post where the text has been auto-translated from a different language it is thirst trap content. This is true across multiple social media platforms. It's especially prevalent on X for example, especially as they seem to be trying to showcase their Grok translations or something.

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> No matter what you follow if FB thinks you are a man it's going to feed you those foreign near-porn shorts.

Definitely not, FB knows I'm a man and I don't have anything remotely pornographic in my feed with any regularity because I don't interact with it when it does.

I've gotten the main feed under control, but the Reels have a mind of their own. It doesn't help that the reels don't have the "not interested" or even a thumbs down. The best you can do is a "hide reel" which seems to impart very little weight on the algorithm.
> No matter what you follow if FB thinks you are a man it's going to feed you those foreign near-porn shorts.

I don't know about FB as I quit it several years ago but I saw this happening on Instagram before I quit it too.

Not my experience at all. I have never seen anything remotely like you describe on my feed.