Instagram Begins Blurring Nudity in Messages
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Instagram to blur nudity in messages in bid to protect teens
Company says it is testing features as part of campaign to fight sexual scams and forms of ‘image abuse’Instagram says it is deploying new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically blur nudity in direct messages.The social media company said in a blogpost on Thursday that it was testing the features as part of its campaign to fight sexual scams and other forms of “image abuse”, and to make it tougher for criminals to contact teens....
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Instagram begins blurring nudity in messages to protect teens
LONDON >> Instagram said it’s deploying new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically blur nudity in direct messages.
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Instagram will test nudity protection in messages to fight sextortion
Instagram is far from a gleaming example of protecting young people online, having failed to prevent its algorithm from promoting child sexual abuse material. But new features bring some (at least a little?) hope that the platform could become a bit safer. Meta announced it's rolling out new tools meant to protect users against intimate image abuse and sextortion — when a person is digitally blackmailed under threat of sharing intimate media. One of the most significant updates is that nudity...