Instagram says it will now detect bullying in photos is continuing its efforts to combat bullying on the platform.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday 9th of October 2018, the company said it is starting to use new machine learning technology to proactively detect bullying in photos and captions. Those posts will be sent to Instagram\u2019s Community Operations team for human review.\u201dOnline bullying is complex, and we know we have more work to do to further limit bullying and spread kindness on Instagram,\u201d Adam Mosseri, the new head of Instagram, said in a blog post.Mosseri was named Instagram\u2019s chief\u00a0last week following\u00a0the exit\u00a0of co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.<\/p>\n
This is Mosseri\u2019s first announcement in his new role.An Instagram spokesperson said the technology can detect bullying and harassment such as attacks on a person\u2019s appearance or character and threats to someone\u2019s wellbeing or health.For example, the tech can identify bullying tactics such as comparing, ranking and rating images and captions, such as a split-screen image in which a person is compared to someone else in a negative way.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear what else the technology can detect and whether it would work on images without captions.This feature has started to roll out and will continue to in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
The company, owned by Facebook, is also launching a \u201cKindness Camera Effect\u201d in partnership with dancer Maddie Ziegler. Anyone who follows Ziegler will have the camera effect automatically. In selfie mode, hearts will appear on the screen. In rear mode, kind comments in different languages will appear. You can tag friends, too.Earlier this year, Instagram announced it would filter out bullying comments that aim to harass or upset users. That feature built on a tool introduced last year that\u00a0blocks\u00a0offensive comments, and a filter that removes spam in comments.<\/p>\n
Starting Tuesday, the bullying comment filter will also apply to Live Videos on Instagram.Users can also\u00a0turn off comments\u00a0on individual Instagram posts and block posts with certain keywords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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