Instagram and Facebook launch features to combat fake news and cyber bullying

In 2019, Instagram introduced a feature that filtered comments. This new AI-powered feature is an extension of the sooner one which alerts users with a warning that their caption looks almost like others that are previously reported supported the words that are utilized in the caption. The Instagram team wrote on Facebook: “Today, when someone writes a caption for a feed post and our AI detects the caption as potentially offensive, they're going to receive a prompt informing them that their caption is analogous to those reported for bullying. they're going to have the chance to edit their caption before it’s posted.” It is also following its parent firm Facebook in rolling out a fact-checking initiative to combat content that has been rated as false or partly false by a third-party fact-checker. This service labels what's deemed to be false and minimises the distribution of flagged content from the Instagram Explore and hashtag pages. In a blog post, Instagram wr...