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AlgorithmWatch, a German research and advocacy group, shut down its Instagram monitoring project after what it says was a “thinly veiled threat” from Facebook. But the social network says it made no such threat and that the group’s project ran afoul of Facebook policies around data collection.

The advocacy group says it’s “committed to evaluating and shedding light on … algorithmic decision-making processes that have social relevance” and that its project found that Instagram prioritizes posts that feature people who are “scantily clad” and that…