Instagram Policies

Instagram's parent company is Facebook and many of the policies used by Facebook are applied to Instagram.^[1]

May 2019 Instagram starts working with third party fact checkers to identify and label false information. Expanded this operation globally in December.^[2]

March 2020 Instagram adds more educational information about COVID-19, they removed accounts with COVID-19 from the recommendations unless they were from a credible health organization. They would start to downrate content in the feed and stories which had been deemed false by third party fact checkers.^[3]

May 2020 Instagram launched an algorithm which detects false images. This algorithm has also been known to target artistic digital manipulation done in Photoshop.^[4]

[1] ttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/29/here-are-all-the-steps-social-media-made-to-combat-misinformation-will-it-be-enough

[2] ttps://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/combatting-misinformation-on-instagram

[3] ttps://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/coronavirus-keeping-people-safe-informed-and-supported-on-instagram/

[4] ttps://news.artnet.com/art-world/instagram-fake-news-filter-1761660

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