The popular social network has been constantly testing new methods to filter potentially harmful content, and even halted the development of Instagram Kids.
Here’s a breakdown of all the changes:, but now posts that may contain bullying or hate speech, or that may encourage violence, will be shown further down in Feed and Stories.
Instagram will down-rank potentially upsetting posts in your Feed based on your history of reporting content. These changes only impact individual posts, not accounts overall. Instagram will also note the violators why their posts have been removed. Instagram already has algorithms in place to flag harmful content but now the company is targeting borderline posts and potential gray zones. “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,” Instagram wrote in an update.The second bullet point in the changelog means that Instagram will try to predict the posts you’re likely to report and preemptively down-rank them in your Feed.
It’s also worth noting that up until now Instagram algorithms have tried to hide harmful content from parts of the app visible to the public users, such as Explore. With the aforementioned changes in place, these posts will also be down-ranked for users following the account posting such content. The changes are already in effect, so be careful what you post, guys and girls!
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