Instagram Tweaked Its Policies on Removing Accounts for Content Violations

Notifications will enable affected users to appeal deletion decisions on posts

Instagram is changing its policy on disabling accounts to mirror the rules already in place at parent company Facebook.

The photo- and video-sharing network’s current policy is to disable accounts with a certain percentage of violating content.

Instagram will now begin removing accounts with a certain unspecified number of violations during a certain unspecified time period. The exact numbers were not revealed in an effort to prevent bad actors from manipulating the system and stopping just short of reaching the threshold for action.

Instagram said in a blog post that the change will enable it to more consistently enforce its policies and hold people accountable for the content they post to its platform.

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