Instagram Is Changing One of Its Policies on Removing Accounts

A hard number of violating posts will trigger the move, instead of a percentage of total posts

Instagram is in the process of changing a policy it uses to determine when accounts should be removed from its platform.

The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network’s current rule allows a certain percentage of violations within a time frame before an account is removed, but some bad actors found a loophole: The more an account posts, the higher the number of violating posts it can get away with before reaching its threshold.

Rather than basing removals on percentage, Instagram will move to a hard number of violations.

An Instagram spokesperson said it would not specify that number, as it didn’t want bad actors to be able to formulate strategies to game the system.

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