Threads users have long joked about the sometimes bizarre posts served up by its recommendation algorithm since the early days of the app. Lately though, some users are starting to notice another type of strange post appear in their suggestions: posts from random people looking for “friends.”
The posts often feature selfies of young people whose profiles claim to be 18. Engadget has observed numerous such posts appearing in Threads’ “related threads” feature that surfaces recommended content to logged-out users. It’s not clear why these posts are appearing as “related” to other popular recommended posts.
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