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| Instagram automatically blocks offensive direct messages |
Instagram is adding new features to prevent direct message harassment. These changes include a new method for filtering annoying direct message requests and the ability to block the same user on multiple accounts.
The new tool allows users to automatically filter boring direct message requests containing specific words, phrases, and emojis.
This tool targets celebrities and public figures who have received a lot of harmful and harmful direct information.
After British footballers discovered the racist messages they had received on the app, Instagram reinforced their direct harassment guidelines and Instagram was updated.
The company said at the time: Preventing abuse of direct messages is a challenge because the company doesn't use the same automated tools it does in comments.
Instagram now provides users with the ability to block individual users and suspend new accounts they can create.
This can help people that the same person calls frequently, or people who don't want that person to find them through a new account.
Instagram has found that its rules prohibit users from creating new accounts.
The app also adds a new tool to prevent abuse of message requests. This is a separate inbox to receive messages from people you don't know.
Instagram is adding a new filter that allows users to automatically hide requests for posts containing offensive words, phrases, and emojis.
While users can also add their own words to the list, the company said, it has worked with anti-bullying organizations to create a list of banned words.
The company announced in February that it would disable the accounts of users who had sent multiple harassing messages, and expanded the offensive comments filter in 2018 to automatically block comments that attack a person's appearance or personality. 'a.
Instagram is under repeated pressure to take more measures to prevent bullying with its app, and the app is also facing a review of its plan to make copies of the service for children under the age of 13.
Democratic lawmakers recently urged Facebook to offer more protection for children, asking both members whether the social media company was doing enough to keep young users safe.