After threatening them with legal action, AlgorithmWatch researchers from Germany had to quit their Instagram algorithm study project. AlgorithmWatch started a project in March 2020 to analyze Instagram’s newsfeed algorithm. Approximately 1,500 volunteers participated in the experiment over the course of 14 months. Installing an add-on that scraped their newsfeeds and sent the information to AlgorithmWatch. This is in order to discover how the business prioritized photos and videos on a tim...