<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59de78a492406c86008b5f7e-1357/jerry%20jones.jpg" alt="jerry jones" data-mce-source="Ron Jenkins/AP">Ron Jenkins/AP</img></div></div></div>After Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said on Sunday that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jerry-jones-cowboys-anthem-disrespect-flag-will-not-play-2017-10">any player that disrespects the flag "will not play,"</a> the team held a meeting with Jones to discuss anthem policies.Jones insisted on Sunday that players would stand for the anthem, and doubled down in an interview on Monday, pointing to a league manual that says players "should" stand.According to several reports, players did not discuss what happened in the meeting, with most declining to comment.However, when cornerback Orlando Scandrick was asked about Breast Cancer Awareness Month, his answer may have hinted at how the meeting with Jones went down.Likewise, Scandrick's choice of music may have hinted at the outcome of the meeting.Jones is a supporter of President Donald Trump, who has been a vocal critic of the national anthem protests. At a rally in September, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-nfl-national-anthem-protest-alabama-rally-2017-9">Trump said NFL owners should "fire"</a> any "son of a b----" who kneels during the anthem.Following widespread protests in the wake of Trump's comments, Jones and the Cowboys knelt before the anthem but then stood during it. Later, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-spoke-to-dallas-cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-team-will-stand-anthem-2017-9">Trump said he spoke to Jones</a> and that Jones told him the Cowboys would stand for the anthem going forward.The national anthem protests appear to be coming to a head, with the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/roger-goodell-letter-nfl-anthem-protests-2017-10">NFL telling teams they have a proposal to move past the protests</a> and begin focusing on highlighting players' work on social issues. The NFL is expected to propose the plan to owners during a meeting next week.On Wednesday, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-praises-nfl-goodell-plan-to-end-anthem-protests-2017-10">Trump praised the NFL</a> for demanding players stand, which the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-trump-tweet-players-stand-national-anthem-2017-10">NFL later fact-checked</a>.In the meantime, if Scandrick's comment is any indication, it doesn't sound like the Cowboys convinced Jones to let them kneel during the anthem.<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">Orlando Scandrick pulled out some pink cleats to support breast cancer awareness. "We're *allowed* to support that," Scandrick said.- Mike Leslie (@MikeLeslieWFAA) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/918195623635161089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2017</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">Upon the media entering the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cowboys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cowboys</a> locker room, Orlando Scandrick was loudly playing YG &amp; Nipsey Hussle's "FDT (F*ck Donald Trump)".- Mike Leslie (@MikeLeslieWFAA) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/918195470010388481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2017</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/falconer-how-to-trick-training-falcons-medieval-times-animal-bird-peregrine-sports-2017-9">How to train a falcon - according to a falconer at Medieval Times</a></h3> <div> <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/saphaoX6-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script> </div> </div>

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Los Angeles, The 2021 <keyword id="10326659" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="GRAMMY-Awards-Nominations">Grammy Awards nominations</keyword> are all about <keyword id="28312" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="women-power">women power</keyword> with Beyonce, <keyword id="35866" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Taylor-Swift">Taylor Swift</keyword> and <keyword id="3923485" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="dua-lipa">Dua Lipa</keyword> leading the way. Beyonce is leading the contender at the 2021 <keyword id="21405" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="Grammy-awards">Grammy Awards</keyword> with nine nods. She is followed by Taylor Swift, Roddy Ricch and Dua Lipa, who earned six nominations each. Brittany Howard, of Alabama Shakes fame, earned five nominations for her solo debut. Earning four each were Billie Eilish, Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, Phoebe Bridgers, Justin Bieber, jazz pianist John Beasley and classical producer David Frost, reports Variety. As a shocker, The Weeknd didn't get nominated. Despite being predicted to dominate the nominations at the 63rd annual Grammys, the pop-R&amp;B superstar's "Blinding lights" single and "After Hours" album got zero nominations. Beyonce will be competing against herself in the Record of the Year category. She is nominated in the category for "Black Parade" as well as "Savage". She fights Black Pumas, DaBaby, Doja Cat, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, and Post Malone for the trophy. Swift's six nominations include five for her "Folklore" album or its "Cardigan" single and one for her collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber on an original song for the film version of "Cats". Her competition in the Album of the Year category include Dua Lipa, Post Malone, Coldplay, Jhené Aiko, Jacob Collier, HAIM and Black Pumas. K-pop super band BTS got a Best Pop Duo/Group Performance nod for their first single sung entirely in English, "Dynamite". Dua Lipa got nominations in the categories of Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Don't Start Now" and Album of the Year for "Future Nostalgia". Dua Lipa and Beyonce are joined in the Song of the Year category by fellow six-time nominees Roddy Ricch and Taylor Swift. Ricch has the most Grammy nominations for any male artiste this year. He is up for Song of the Year for "The Box" and Record of the Year for "Rockstar" with DaBaby. The 63rd Grammy Awards will be held on January 31, 2021 and will be showcased live in India on <keyword id="3847376" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="VH1-India">Vh1 India</keyword>. Here is the list of 2021 Grammy nominees from main categories:ALBUM OF THE YEAR Chilombo, Jhene Aiko Black Pumas (Deluxe Edition), Black Pumas Everyday Life, Coldplay Djesse Vol. 3, Jacob Collier Women in Music Pt. III, HAIM Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa Hollywood's Bleeding, Post Malone Folklore, Taylor Swift RECORD OF THE YEAR "Black Parade"  Beyonce "Colors"  Black Pumas "Rockstar"  DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch "Say So"  Doja Cat "Everything I Wanted"  Billie Eilish "Don't Start Now"  Dua Lipa "Circles"  Post Malone "Savage"  Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyonce SONG OF THE YEAR "Black Parade"  Beyonce "The Box"  Roddy Ricch "Cardigan"  Taylor Swift "Circles"  Post Malone "Don't Start Now"  Dua Lipa "Everything I Wanted"  Billie Eilish "I Can't Breathe"  H.E.R. "If the World Was Ending"  JP Saxe Featuring Julia Michaels BEST NEW ARTIST Ingrid Andress Phoebe Bridgers Chika Noah Cyrus D Smoke Doja Cat Kaytranada Megan Thee Stallion BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE "Yummy"  Justin Bieber "Say So"  Doja Cat "Everything I Wanted"  Billie Eilish "Don't Start Now"  Dua Lipa "Watermelon Sugar"  Harry Styles "Cardigan"  Taylor Swift BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE "Un Dia (One Day)  J Balvin, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny &amp; Tainy "Intentions"  Justin Bieber Featuring Quavo "Dynamite"  BTS "Rain on Me"  Lady Gaga with Ariana Grande "Exile"  Taylor Swift Featuring Bon Iver BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM Blue Umbrella, (Burt Bacharach &amp;) Daniel Tashian True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter, Harry Connick, Jr. American Standard, James Taylor Unfollow the Rules, Rufus Wainwright Judy, Renee Zellweger BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM Changes, Justin Bieber Chromatica, Lady Gaga Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa Fine Line, Harry Styles Folklore, Taylor Swift BEST DANCE RECORDING "On My Mind"  Diplo &amp; SIDEPIECE "My High"  Disclosure Featuring Aminé &amp; Slowthai "The Difference"  Flume Featuring Toro y Moi "Both Of Us"  Jayda G "10%"  Kaytranada Featuring Kali Uchis BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUM Kick I, Arca Planet's Mad, Baauer Energy, Disclosure Bubba, Kaytranada Good Faith, Madeon BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM Axiom, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Chronology of a Dream: Live at the Village Vanguard, Jon Batiste Take the Stairs, Black Violin Americana, Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin &amp; Bill Frisell Live at the Royal Albert Hall, Snarky Puppy BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE "Shameika"  Fiona Apple "Not"  Big Thief "Kyoto"  Phoebe Bridgers "The Steps"  HAIM "Stay High"  Brittany Howard "Daylight"  Grace Potter BEST METAL PERFORMANCE "Bum-Rush"  Body Count "Underneath"  Code Orange "The In-Between"  In This Moment "Bloodmoney"  Poppy "Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe) - Live"  Power Trip BEST ROCK SONG "Kyoto"  Phoebe Bridgers "Lost in Yesterday"  Tame Impala "Not"  Big Thief "Shameika"  Fiona Apple "Stay High"  Brittany Howard BEST ROCK ALBUM A Hero's Death, Fontaines D.C. Kiwanuka, Michael Kiwanuka Daylight, Grace Potter Sound &amp; Fury, Sturgill Simpson The New Abnormal, The Strokes BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Fiona Apple Hyperspace, Beck Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers Jaime, Brittany Howard The Slow Rush, Tame Impala BEST R&amp;B PERFORMANCE "Lightning &amp; Thunder"  Jhene Aiko Featuring John Legend "Black Parade"  Beyonce "All I Need"  Jacob Collier Featuring Mahalia &amp; Ty Dolla $ign "Goat Head"  Brittany Howard "See Me"  Emily King BEST TRADITIONAL R&amp;B PERFORMANCE "Sit on Down"  The Baylor Project Featuring Jean Baylor &amp; Marcus Baylor "Wonder What She Thinks of Me"  Chloe X Halle "Let Me Go"  Mykal Kilgore "Anything for You"  Ledisi "Distance"  Yebba BEST R&amp;B SONG "Better Than I Imagine"  Robert Glasper Featuring H.E.R. &amp; Meshell Ndegeocello "Black Parade"  Beyoncé "Collide"  Tiana Major9 &amp; EARTHGANG "Do It"  Chloe X Halle "Slow Down"  Skip Marley &amp; H.E.R. BEST PROGRESSIVE R&amp;B ALBUM Chilombo, Jhene Aiko Ungodly Hour, Chloe X Halle Free Nationals, Free Nationals F**k Yo Feelings, Robert Glasper It Is What It Is, Thundercat BEST R&amp;B ALBUM Happy 2 Be Here, Ant Clemons Take Time, Giveon To Feel Love/d, Luke James Bigger Love, John Legend All Rise, Gregory Porter BEST RAP PERFORMANCE "Deep Reverence"  Big Sean Featuring Nipsey Hussle "Bop"  DaBaby "What's Poppin"  Jack Harlow "The Bigger Picture"  Lil Baby "Savage"  Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyonce "Dior"  Pop Smoke BEST MELODIC RAP PERFORMANCE "Rockstar"  DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch "Laugh Now, Cry Later"  Drake Featuring Lil Durk "Lockdown"  Anderson .Paak "The Box"  Roddy Ricch "Highest in the Room"  Travis Scott BEST RAP SONG "The Bigger Picture"  Lil Baby "The Box"  Roddy Rich "Laugh Now, Cry Later"  Drake Featuring Lil Durk "Rockstar"  DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch "Savage"  Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyonce) BEST RAP ALBUM Black Habits, D Smoke Alfredo, Freddie Gibbs &amp; The Alchemist A Written Testimony, Jay Electronica King's Disease, Nas The Allegory, Royce da 5'9" BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE "Stick That in Your Country Song"  Eric Church "Who You Thought I Was"  Brandy Clark "When My Amy Prays"  Vince Gill "Black Like Me"  Mickey Guyton "Bluebird"  Miranda Lambert BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE All Night"  Brothers Osborne "10,000 Hours"  Dan + Shay &amp; Justin Bieber "Ocean"  Lady A "Sugar Coat"  Little Big Town "Some People Do"  Old Dominion BEST COUNTRY SONG "Bluebird"  Miranda Lambert "The Bones"  Maren Morris "Crowded Table"  The Highwomen "More Hearts Than Mine"  Ingrid Andress "Some People Do"  Old Dominion BEST COUNTRY ALBUM Lady Like, Ingrid Andress Your Life Is a Record, Brandy Clark Wildcard, Miranda Lambert Nightfall, Little Big Town Never Will, Ashley McBryde --IANS sug/vnc

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d15a50e9dfbce2c932d8204-2400/gettyimages-962143476.jpg" border="0" alt="mark zuckerberg" data-mce-source="Getty Images" /></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/instagram">Instagram</a> is recommending new users in the US follow an account linked to a "healer" who claimed he could use herbs to cure AIDS, cancer, and other diseases.</li><li>"Dr. Sebi," whose clients reportedly included Michael Jackson and John Travolta, said that modern medicine was wrong and that all illnesses were ultimately caused caused by excess "mucus."</li><li>The decision by the social network's algorithm is likely exposing tens of thousands of people to this dangerous medical misinformation.</li><li>One expert estimates that the recommendation is equivalent to millions of dollars' worth of free advertising for the account selling Dr. Sebi-inspired supplements.</li><li>The incident shows how Instagram's algorithms can expose people to harmful pseudoscience, even if they have never previously had any interest in it.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>In 2004, Michael Jackson was reportedly spending almost $4,000 a day to visit "Dr. Sebi," a pseudoscientific "healer" who once claimed his herbal remedies could cure everything from AIDS to herpes.Today, Sebi's bogus potions have found another high-profile promoter: Instagram.The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/facebook">Facebook</a>-owned photo-sharing app has been automatically recommending an account promoting Sebi's medical misinformation to new users in certain countries, including the United States, Business Insider has found - likely introducing his erroneous theories on human biology to thousands of new people and giving them a worrying veneer of legitimacy.Sebi's wild claims include that disease is fundamentally caused by excess "mucus," rather than bacteria, viruses, and other ailments, and that you can make your body more alkaline to improve your health, ideas totally at odds with modern medicine. He died in 2016, and was not a licensed medical doctor, but Instagram's algorithm is now pushing a major account selling supplements and products inspired by his theories for up to $1,500 a purchase to new users of the site, regardless of their interests.Why? When someone signs up for the social network they're shown a list of high-profile users they might want to follow as part of a the onboarding process, under the heading "Recommended for you." These are not paid promotions or ads; they are accounts chosen by the company's opaque algorithms seemingly on the basis of popularity, and the majority are mainstream celebrities, athletes, and brands, including Ellen DeGeneres, Nike, The Rock, and the FBI.But also included among the top ten suggestions is "Official Dr. Sebi's Cell Food" (@drsebiscellfood) - an account with more than one million followers that sells Sebi's concoctions, dismisses the efficacy of conventional medicine, and which features user comments on its website suggesting its tinctures can be used to successfully treat serious illnesses including breast cancer, diabetes, and auto-immune disease.Instagram's promotion of Sebi's pseudoscience is the latest example of how social networks' opaque algorithms, in their attempts to highlight popular content and inspire people to use the services as much as possible, can inadvertently spread dangerous medical misinformation.The finding has prompted serious concern from scientists and other experts over what likely amounts to millions of dollars' worth of free advertising for the account, on some of the most valuable real estate on the internet.An Instagram spokesperson said the company was currently investigating the account. "We are always working to identify and reduce the spread of misinformation on Instagram, and actively take steps to reduce its distribution where we can," they said in a statement. "We're looking into whether or not this account is recommendable based on our misinformation policies."The website selling Sebi's products did not respond to a request for comment.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d15a1f5ba1ec92f77671163-2400/screenshot 2019-06-26 at 34523 pm.png" border="0" alt="instagram dr sebi" data-mce-source="BI/Instagram" data-mce-caption="When new users sign up for Instagram, they're shown a list of top accounts to follow. In this test from June 26, the pseudoscience account - @drsebiscellfood - was number seven on the list." /></div></div></div><h2>A celebrity pseudoscientist with wild theories about 'mucus'</h2>Alfredo "Dr. Sebi" Bowman was a Honduras-born alternative medicine practitioner who developed a long list of celebrity clients - including Steven Seagal, John Travolta, and Eddie Murphy, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/08/23/alfredo-bowman-celebrity-herbalist--obituary/">according to an obituary from The Telegraph</a>.Over the course of his life he was embroiled in a number of lawsuits. In the 1990s, the New York Attorney General's office brought a suit against an organization linked to Sebi, <a href="https://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/sebi/nyag_testimony.pdf">resulting in a consent agreement in which it</a> could no longer make therapeutic claims about its products. His relationship with Michael Jackson ended with the non-doctor suing the pop star for $380,000. Sebi was arrested in Honduras in 2016 and charged with money laundering, and subsequently died in prison.Scientific experts are dismissive of Sebi's claims about mucus build-up, <a href="https://drsebiscellfood.com/methodology/">and the idea that touted on the Dr. Sebi's Cell Food website that</a> "only consistent use of natural botanical remedies will effectively cleanse and detoxify a diseased body, reversing it to its intended alkaline state.""Modern medicine has given us highly effective immunizations, life-saving surgeries, antiviral medications, chemotherapy, and many other successful interventions," said Jonathan Jarry, a science communicator at McGill University's Office for Science &amp; Society."And it was modern medicine, not 'African Bio-mineral Balance compounds,' that revolutionized the treatment of childhood cancers. And to reject that infectious agents like viruses can cause disease in 2019 is quite frankly an indefensible, anti-science stance."Sebi has shot back into the headlines this month following the death of American rapper Nipsey Hussle, who had been making a documentary about the herbalist - prompting unproven conspiracy theories that "there were forces trying to silence Sebi's health message," <a href="https://www.apnews.com/36e73cee44084fffadadf67f1df7a545">according to a report from the Associated Press</a>.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d159faa27b6522d6c669c93-2232/screenshot 2019-06-27 at 100042 pm.png" border="0" alt="dr sebi website" data-mce-source="BI" data-mce-caption="Some of the products on sale at the website for Dr. Sebi's Cell Food." /></div></div></div><h2>Instagram appears to be directly endorsing the account to tens of thousands of new users</h2>Tests suggest that all new users signing up in the United States seem to be being recommended the Sebi account, often as one of the top 10 recommendations - boosting it to likely tens of thousands of people in a way that makes it appear directly endorsed by Instagram."This is an explicit endorsement, it could be nothing less," said Anil Dash, a well-known American technology executive, of how the Sebi account's inclusion in the list will be viewed. "In order to get that kind of reach, other companies, other people, will spend millions of dollars - millions! This is a multi-million-dollar gift they are giving to obscure, shady, duplicitous publishers."Dash has experienced the power of social network's recommendations first-hand: In the early days of Twitter, <a href="https://anildash.com/2009/12/29/life_on_the_list/">he was one of the site's recommended users to follow</a>, resulting in at times hundreds of new followers an hour, and a significant boost to his online presence: "It is some large part of me being visible."It's not clear when Instagram started featuring the account in its recommendations, or exactly how many new followers the recommendation has driven to the account. It is currently growing rapidly; at the end of 2018, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Br_cVNynFHO/">it had 600,000 followers</a>, 40% less than now. <a href="https://socialblade.com/instagram/user/drsebiscellfood">According to social media analysis firm Social Blade</a>, it is currently gaining an average of 2,000 new followers per day; it's not clear what proportion of those are coming via the recommendation feature.An Instagram spokesperson declined to share data about how much exposure the account has gained due to its inclusion as a recommendation.Business Insider ran multiple tests across the United States, signing up for new accounts in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Every time, the new accounts were shown the "Official Dr. Sebi's Cell Food" (@drsebiscellfood) as one of their top suggestions. (We could not conclusively prove that it appears for every single new user in the US, but it is clearly widespread, with the lists of recommendations appearing essentially identical across the country.) It also appeared as one of the suggestions for a new user in Melbourne, Australia, though it did not show up in London, England or Montreal, Canada, with those new users seeing different recommendations tailored to their country. These recommendations appear if a user opts not to sync their contacts with the social network, and are not interested-based - they come before a user has had a chance to enter any personal information, upload photos, or actively seek out other accounts to follow.If a new user chooses to follow @drsebiscellfood and starts using the app, Instagram will then start pushing other pseudoscientific accounts into their main feed in a box labeled "Suggestions For You," promoting other misinformation based on Sebi's theories - including <a href="https://www.instagram.com/heralkalineways/">ALKALINE VEGAN (@heralkalineways)</a> which is openly dismissive of modern medicine's efficacy, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/justalkalinevegan/">"Alkaline Vegan" (@justalkalinevegan</a>), <a href="https://www.instagram.com/drsebibook/">"Dr. Sebi" (@drsebibook)</a>, and others.In this way, Instagram's algorithms can push users down a rabbit-hole of medical misinformation, even if they had never heard of "Dr. Sebi" or shown any interest in pseudoscience before signing up for the social network.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d15a2d6a17d6c39ff1b3f23-1360/screenshot 2019-06-26 at 34631 pm.png" border="0" alt="dr sebi instagram" style="color: #000000;" data-mce-source="BI/Instagram" data-mce-caption="After a new Instagram user follows the first Dr. Sebi account, other recommendations like this begin appearing in the home feed." /></div></div></div>The incident also raises serious questions about what accounts Instagram has been recommending to other users in other languages over the past decade. Business Insider was only able to conduct tests in a few major English-speaking countries over the space of a week - it's not clear what misinformation may have proliferated due to the recommendation feature elsewhere in the world.Tech companies are now coming under increasing scrutiny over how their algorithms can inadvertently spread pseudoscience and other misinformation into the mainstream. Vaccine denialism is on the rise, prompting outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, in part because communities of misguided skeptics have been able to use social networks as a platform to spread their message. And <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mms-jim-humble-bleach-autism-cure-youtube-2019-5?r=US&amp;IR=T">Business Insider has previously reported on how</a> YouTube has become a home for people who advocate drinking bleach, wrongly claiming it has healing powers."Instagram's role in actively promoting pseudoscience through its platform algorithms by steering new users to follow sites deceptively selling snake oil ups the ante," said Professor S. Bryn Austin at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "Policymakers have started demanding more accountability from these platforms for their role in cultivating and curating deceptive content in other arenas. Promoting pseudoscience is no different."An Instagram spokesperson declined to say whether the company would notify affected users that it encouraged them to follow misinformation, saying it was still investigating and deciding next steps.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d15a119daa95432e423ad63-2400/screenshot 2019-06-27 at 100648 pm.png" border="0" alt="instagram dr sebi" data-mce-source="BI/Instagram" data-mce-caption="Posts on the Dr. Sebi Instagram account are typically a mix of quotes from the &amp;quothealer,&quot; testimonials, &amp;quothealth foods,&quot; and aesthetic imagery - while its associated website peddles expensive supplements and makes outlandish medical claims." /></div></div></div><h2>'These statements are the very definition of pseudoscience'</h2>The website for Dr. Sebi's Cell Food features a boilerplate disclaimer on its website, warning that its "statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease."But this doesn't stop it offering medical-sounding advice - or featuring glowing reviews from customers making radical claims about the products' alleged efficacy. The <a href="https://drsebiscellfood.com/product/all-inclusive-package-female-estro/">$1,500 female-focused "All Inclusive Package"</a> has a comment from someone saying they used it to treat breast cancer. Multiple commenters on the <a href="https://drsebiscellfood.com/product/advanced-package/">$750 "Advanced Package"</a> say they used it to tackle herpes (herpes is currently incurable). <a href="https://drsebiscellfood.com/product/banju/">$50 banju</a> is touted by the comments as a treatment for mental conditions ranging from bipolar disorder to dementia and ADHD. <a href="https://drsebiscellfood.com/product/bio-ferro-tonic/">Bio Ferro tonic</a> has comments from people with diabetes and cancer."It's a very convenient way of not making the claims yourself and just allowing testimonials to speak for you, and to make these quite, quite ridiculous claims that are unproven as far as I'm concerned," said Jarry. There is no evidence that these medical conditions were actually cured by the products, he said, or that the reviews are even real.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d15a3cc3f2b742f286b416b-1860/screenshot 2019-06-27 at 105203 am.png" border="0" alt="instagram dr sebi" style="color: #000000;" data-mce-source="BI/Instagram" data-mce-caption="Instagram users frequently comment on photos of the supplements to ask if they can treat serious illnesses that typically require conventional medical treatment." /></div></div></div>Asked to comment on the claims made by the female All Inclusive Package, he said: "You can't cleanse the body at the cellular level. You also can't rebuild your blood by ingesting algae and herbs. Unfortunately, these statements are the very definition of pseudoscience: they sound scientific by invoking concepts such as 'cells' and 'calcifications,' but they are a mumbo jumbo that any undergraduate student in cell biology would recognize as such."He pointed out that the Bromide Plus Powder is framed to avoid making specific medical claims, meaning that it does not break any laws. "They can't write that Bromide Plus will regenerate your stomach or cure your colorectal cancer. But they can make this vague assertion that it's 'helpful' to your gastrointestinal tract, which is at once meaningless and superficially convincing."And of the Uterine Wash &amp; Oil, he added: "If a person needs their blood to be 'purified,' they're going to need a dialysis machine, not a vaginal douche made of clovers."<hr />Got a tip? 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