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Instagram to reduce visibility of 'potentially harmful' content

Instagram to reduce visibility of 'potentially harmful' content
Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is taking new steps to make "potentially harmful" content less visible in its app.The company said that the algorithm powering the way posts are ordered in users' feeds and in Stories will now de-prioritise content that "may contain bullying, hate speech or may incite violence," reports Engadget.While Instagram's rules already prohibit much of this type of content, the change could affect borderline posts or content that hasn't yet reached the app's moderators."To understand if something may break our rules, we'll look at things like if a caption is similar to a caption that previously broke our rules," the company explained in an update.Up until now, Instagram has tried to hide potentially objectionable content from public-facing parts of the app, like Explore, but hasn't changed how it appears to users who follow the accounts posting this type of content.The latest change means that posts deemed "similar" to those that have been previously removed will be much less visible even to followers.A spokesperson for Meta confirmed that "potentially harmful" posts could still be eventually removed if the post breaks its community guidelines.The update follows a similar change in 2020 when Instagram began down-ranking accounts that shared misinformation that was debunked by fact-checkers.Unlike that change, however, Instagram said that the latest policy will only affect individual posts and "not accounts overall".Follow Gadgets Now on  Facebook  and  Twitter.   For the  latest news,   tech news,   breaking news headlines and live updates checkout Gadgetsnow.comGN Awards - Vote for your favourite GadgetsFacebookTwitterLinkedinAdd commentStart a ConversationAll Comments (0)+0/3000Be the first one to comment.{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","inLanguage":"en","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/instagram-to-reduce-visibility-of-potentially-harmful-content/articleshow/89044359.cms","url":"https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/instagram-to-reduce-visibility-of-potentially-harmful-content/articleshow/89044359.cms"},"headline":"Instagram to reduce visibility of 'potentially harmful' content","description":"Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is taking new steps to make \"potentially harmful\" content less visible in its app.The company said that the algorithm powering the way posts are ordered in users' feeds and in Stories will now de-prioritise content that \"may contain bullying, hate speech or may incite violence,\" reports Engadget.While Instagram's rules already prohibit much of this type of content, the change could affect borderline posts or content that hasn't yet reached the app's mo...","keywords":"Instagram update,Instagram feature,instagram,meta,Facebook","datePublished":"2022-01-21T20:09:00+05:30","dateModified":"2022-01-21T20:13:00+05:30","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/resizemode-4,msid-89044359,width-1200,height-900/89044359.jpg","height":900,"width":1200},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"IANS"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Gadgets Now","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.toiimg.com/photo/88204186.cms","width":600,"height":60}},"articleBody":"Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is taking new steps to make \"potentially harmful\" content less visible in its app.The company said that the algorithm powering the way posts are ordered in users' feeds and in Stories will now de-prioritise content that \"may contain bullying, hate speech or may incite violence,\" reports Engadget.While Instagram's rules already prohibit much of this type of content, the change could affect borderline posts or content that hasn't yet reached the app's moderators.\"To understand if something may break our rules, we'll look at things like if a caption is similar to a caption that previously broke our rules,\" the company explained in an update.Up until now, Instagram has tried to hide potentially objectionable content from public-facing parts of the app, like Explore, but hasn't changed how it appears to users who follow the accounts posting this type of content.The latest change means that posts deemed \"similar\" to those that have been previously removed will be much less visible even to followers.A spokesperson for Meta confirmed that \"potentially harmful\" posts could still be eventually removed if the post breaks its community guidelines.The update follows a similar change in 2020 when Instagram began down-ranking accounts that shared misinformation that was debunked by fact-checkers.Unlike that change, however, Instagram said that the latest policy will only affect individual posts and \"not accounts overall\"."} - https://www.affordablecebu.com/
 

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