- Instagram is working to make it simpler to avoid trolls.
- Instagram is stepping up its efforts to stop hate speech.
- It will improve capabilities that allow users to ban abusive accounts.
- It also enhanced a mechanism that prevents users from accessing potentially offensive texts.
Instagram, which is owned by Meta Platforms, said on Thursday that it would improve capabilities that allow users to ban the accounts of abusers and trolls on the social networking site.
Users will now be able to ban all of a person’s current accounts, building on a function introduced last year that only permitted the disabling of new accounts.
“Based on preliminary test findings from this new change, we anticipate that our community will need to ban 4 million fewer accounts each week, since these accounts will now be blocked automatically,” Instagram said in a blog post.
The photo-sharing app, which is more popular among young people and adolescents than Meta’s Facebook, has increased its efforts to combat hate speech and online abuse on its platform.
Instagram has also improved a function that prevents users from reading potentially harmful comments by screening objectionable phrases from story responses, and said on Thursday that it is increasing “nudges” aimed to shield authors from abuse.
