{"id":25415,"date":"2021-07-25T04:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T04:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/instagram-confirms-test-of-new-anti-harassment-tool-limits-designed-for-moments-of-crisis.html"},"modified":"2021-07-25T04:50:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T04:50:51","slug":"instagram-confirms-test-of-new-anti-harassment-tool-limits-designed-for-moments-of-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/instagram-confirms-test-of-new-anti-harassment-tool-limits-designed-for-moments-of-crisis.html","title":{"rendered":"Instagram confirms test of new anti-harassment tool, Limits, designed for moments of crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed<\/a> the company is testing a new feature called \u201cLimits,\u201d which would give users the ability to temporary lock down their accounts when they\u2019re being targeted by a flood of harassment. The announcement of the new feature was made today during a video where Mosseri condemned the recent racism that took place on Instagram\u2019s platform following the Euro 2020 final,<\/a> and noted the company was working on improvements to both internal and customer-facing tools to help address this problem.<\/p>\n

The company had previously commented on and condemned the racist abuse, which had seen England footballers Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho viciously harassed<\/a> by angry fans making racist comments after the team\u2019s defeat earlier this month. Mosseri explained at the time<\/a> the company was using technology to try to prioritize user reports, and it mistakenly marked some reports as benign comments instead of referring them to human moderators. One of the possible complications was that many of the harassing comments were using emoji, which Instagram\u2019s systems may have struggled to understand given emoji can have different meanings in different contexts.<\/p>\n

Today, Mosseri again acknowledged Instagram\u2019s mistake and noted it has since fixed the issue. He said<\/a> Instagram had been proactively sweeping the footballers\u2019 comments, but hadn\u2019t anticipated the wave of user reports.<\/p>\n

He also pointed out that Instagram receives millions of user reports per day and even getting 1% of them wrong leads to tens of thousands of problematic posts that remain on the platform in error.<\/p>\n

Mosseri then mentioned several user-facing tools that could help people deal with harassment more directly on their own accounts to prevent abuse. This includes Instagram\u2019s tools like Block and Restrict<\/a>. The latter is tool that allows users to approve a user\u2019s comments before anyone else sees them or read someone\u2019s messages without sending read receipts. Another more recently added tool called Hidden Words<\/a> lets users block certain keywords in both comments and direct messages.<\/p>\n

He added that the Limits feature could have helped the footballers, as it would have offered simple settings to limit unwanted comments and reactions.<\/p>\n

The feature had been spotted<\/a> earlier this month by social media consultant Matt Navarra, who shared screenshots of how it worked, but Instagram had yet to formally announce it.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a few more screenshots of Instagram\u2019s \u2018Limits\u2019 features pic.twitter.com\/ssR7VmpG7m<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) July 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In the images that were shared, users with the feature would find a new section called Limits in Instagram\u2019s privacy controls that explained that they could temporarily limit comments and messages from specific groups of followers.<\/p>\n

Users could then toggle on or off groups to limit, including recent followers and accounts that are not following you, as these could include accounts that were spam or those created just to harass you. As is often the case, when there\u2019s a flood of incoming abuse, it will not come from an account\u2019s longtime followers, but rather from newcomers who have sought out the account just to harass them.<\/p>\n

The feature will also allow users to set a duration for the Limits in terms of a number of days or even weeks.<\/p>\n

An Instagram spokesperson also confirmed the feature worked as the images show, noting it would be a tool that would help people manage \u201cintense instances of harassment or abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe you\u2019re in high school and you are going through a breakup or you just switched schools. Or maybe you are a professional footballer and you\u2019re receiving a lot of harassment,\u201d explained Mosseri, when detailing how Limits could be useful in different situations. \u201cWhatever it is, we know that people sometimes are in temporary moments of real risk of pain, and we want to give them tools to protect themselves in those situations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Instagram declined to say when the feature would become publicly available, but noted it\u2019s being tested on mobile in select countries for the time being.<\/p>\n

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MIT professor wants to overhaul \u2018The Hype Machine\u2019 that powers social media<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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