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Platform Processing — What Social Media Really Does
Real-world experiments testing how social media platforms transform uploaded images — Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook, and more.
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Experiment
What Instagram Actually Does to Your Photos: A Pixel-Level Analysis
We uploaded sealed images to Instagram and examined exactly how the platform processes them — JPEG quality, resolution limits, metadata stripping, and chroma subsampling changes.
10 min · Mar 1, 2026
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Experiment
How Every Major Platform Strips Your Image Metadata
A systematic study of metadata preservation across 12 platforms — Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Discord, Reddit, Imgur, Pinterest, Tumblr, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal.
12 min · Mar 3, 2026
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