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Instagram has announced an automated mechanism for blocking offensive messages, in addition to blocking users who consistently harass.
At this stage it is not clear when the update will land with users in Israel, or around the world
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Eldad Treasure, The Verifier
Friday, 23 April 2021, 08:03 Updated: Saturday, 24 April 2021, 20:13
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Instagram updated (Photo: ShutterStock)
In a post posted on the company's blog, Instagram revealed new ways of dealing with abusive communication on its network.
This time it shows the ability to filter out users who try to contact and use abusive words in order to harass.
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Continues to fight harassment and bullying
One of the features unveiled by the company provides a solution for large Instagram accounts that receive a lot of inquiries, including quite a few annoying inquiries with offensive content. Most of the accounts that suffer from these harassments are the famous and famous accounts, which often receive quite a few such sexual, racist, homophobic or bullying messages, the main purpose of which is to harm the account holder.
The same feature actually automatically detects the content in question and immediately redirects it to a separate "folder" in the messaging complex (DMs). The new option actually focuses on message requests, which are usually received by people you do not follow, and basically filters out any content that is identified as offensive such as words, sentences and even emojis, which in different legal contexts may have a different connotation from regular usage (examples like eggplant emoji , Peach, emoji of people of a certain skin color in a racist context and more).The filtering mechanism can be turned on and off at any time through the privacy settings menu.
"The filtering mechanism can be turned on and off at any time through the privacy settings menu" (Photo: PR)
Instagram has been trying to fight cyberbullying for some time now and it already has an automatic detection mechanism for abusive, sexual, racist content on the web, which automatically removes it and warns users not to upload it again.
Content such as pornography or hate speech is tagged and removed from the web almost immediately.
In addition to filtering the new messages, Instagram announces a new option to block unwanted users from contacting you in the future, and through new users they will open (Photo: PR)
Complete blocking of users
In addition to the new message filtering, Instagram announces a new option to block unwanted users from contacting you in the future, and through new users they will open.
According to Instagram, once you block a network user, you can choose to block it from any future contact through new users that that person will open.
Instagram does not detail how this happens behind the scenes, but in our opinion it is a cross-referencing of the registration details in front of the device it uses, the location, the status of the network and more.
The two new features will begin to reach the various users gradually around the world.
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