Facebook To Roll Out Additional Instagram Features To Tackle Inappropriate Direct Messages

Facebook Inc’s FB photo-sharing app, Instagram, will soon allow users to hide direct message requests containing inappropriate words, phrases, or emojis, Bloomberg reports.
Every direct message request from a preset list will be filtered into a separately hidden request folder. The users will be able to report, delete or open messages from the folder, Reuters reports.
The users will also have the option to block any new accounts from an already blocked account. The feature will be only applicable to direct message requests.
The filter can be activated on Instagram in privacy settings and be customized to include words, phrases, and emojis that the users wished to exclude from their message requests.
Every user will be able to block people from contacting them on Instagram altogether.
The feature will be globally available in the next few weeks.
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