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Instagram is failing to act on abuse targeting women lawmakers on both sides of the aisle
Instagram is failing to enforce its own rules and allowing some of its most high-profile accounts to be targeted with abusive comments “with impunity,” according to a new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
Instagram is failing to enforce its own rules and allowing some of its most high-profile accounts to be targeted with abusive comments “with impunity,” according to a new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate. The anti-hate group claims that Meta failed to remove 93 percent of comments it reported to the company, including ones that contain racial slurs, violent threats and other disturbing language that would seem to clearly violate the social network’s rules. “We're simulating the moment at which someone reaches out their hand asking for help, and actually, Instagram's failure to act on that compounds the harm done,” CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed said in a briefing about the report.
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