Instagram will now show suspected hate speech lower in your Feed – Mashable

Instagram has announced it will now show potential hate speech lower down in your feed, lulling you with a gentle string of thirst traps and puppies before hitting you with the racism. Revealed in a blog post on Thursday, Instagram says it is taking “stronger action” against posts which might contain bullying, hate speech, or may incite violence — by making you scroll for a bit longer before seeing them in your Feed or Stories. This means you could soon be spending a little more time on the image sharing platform before seeing a disgusting post which makes you close the app.”If our systems detect that a post may contain bullying, hate speech or may incite violence, we’ll show it lower on Feeds and Stories of that person’s followers,” the post says. “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.”It makes sense that Instagram wouldn’t want to immediately remove posts which only may contain objectionable content. However, the platform also doesn’t remove posts that independent fact-checkers determine do contain misinformation, preferring to de-prioritise them instead.”At Instagram, we’re always trying to show you content…
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