Instagram will expand features that will help users block accounts of abusers and trolls on the social media platform, the company that owns the Meta platform said on Thursday.
Users will now be able to block all of a person’s existing accounts, expanding on a feature launched last year that only allowed blocking of any new accounts they created.
“Based on initial test results of this new change, we expect our community will need to block 4 million fewer accounts per week, as these accounts are now automatically blocked,” Instagram said in a blog post. will go.”
The photo-sharing app is doubling down on tackling hate speech and online abuse on its platform, which is more popular with teenagers and young adults than Meta’s Facebook.
Instagram has also upgraded its feature that helps prevent users from seeing potentially abusive messages, by filtering out offensive words in story replies, and said on Thursday that it would protect creators from harassment. Extending the “particulars” designed for
