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Instagram is testing a dislike button, but only for comments

Instagram is testing a dislike button for comments. The feature will be used with Reels and Feed posts.

Instagram is testing a new dislike button, which the company has signaled is a way for users to effectively downvote a distasteful or irrelevant comment. "This gives people a private way to signal that they don’t feel good about that particular comment," Mosseri wrote on Threads. A Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch that the primary purpose of the dislike button is to improve the quality of the comment section, echoing Mosseri’s post.

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