Monday 12 September 2016
Instagram now lets you hide abusive or annoying comments from trolls. It’s about darn time. The company first rolled this feature out for for businesses in July, allowing them to auto-hide any comments with offensive words and phrases. The feature appears under a ‘Comment Moderation’ sub-menu of your app settings. It essentially works the same here. Go to your settings, click on ‘Comments’ and the toggle on ‘Hide Inappropriate Comments.’ Instagram will then filter words and phrases ‘often reported as inappropriate.’ But of course, trolls have been finding their way around filters since the internet was born, using mispelled slurs…
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