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Center for Business and Human Rights Deputy Director Paul Barrett explains why misinformation on Instagram often takes the form of memes and other images that are harder for the company’s systems to detect

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Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "The problem, according to those who study it, is that misinformation on Instagram often takes the form of memes and other images that are harder for the company’s systems to detect and can be more difficult for the company’s human reviewers to parse. And while Instagram is building out new systems to address this, images can be a much more effective conduit for bad actors, says Paul Barrett, the deputy director of NYU's Stern Center for Business and Human Rights."

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