Instagram Is Finally Letting Users Hide Inappropriate Comments

Will filter trolls based on custom or default keywords

Brands, celebrities and plenty of average people have all received their unfair share of abuse by anonymous (and non-anonymous) trolls on Instagram. Finally, the Facebook-owned company is taking a more effective approach to filtering unwanted remarks in a way that amounts to more than deleting or reporting comments.

Today, Instagram is rolling out a feature that lets the mobile photo- and video-sharing app's more than 500 million users moderate comments by filtering keywords that will hide comments that use them.

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