Brands, celebrities and plenty of average people have all received their unfair share of abuse by anonymous (and non-anonymous) trolls on Instagram. Finally, the Facebook-owned company is taking a more effective approach to filtering unwanted remarks in a way that amounts to more than deleting or reporting comments. Today, Instagram is rolling out a feature that lets the mobile photo- and video-sharing app's more than 500 million users moderate comments by filtering keywords that will hide comments that use them. The feature lets users create their own list of words or choose default options suggested by Instagram. In a blog post published today, Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom said the company is taking steps to foster a "positive place to express yourself." "The beauty of the Instagram community is the diversity of its members. All different types of people—from diverse backgrounds, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and more—call Instagram home, but sometimes the comments on their posts can be unkind," Systrom wrote. "To empower each individual, we need to promote a culture where everyone feels safe to be themselves without criticism or harassment. It's not only my personal wish to do this, I believe it's also our responsibility as a company." Users will be able to take advantage of the filtering system by turning on a button from the Options page. Here's what the setting looks like: Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
[ AdWeek | 2016-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Elijah Jay is wants nternet stardom, almost anywhere he can get it, just not as a TikTok salesman. But that’s exactly what he became when the social media company used one of his videos in an ad that ran on Snapchat. Jay's video, in which he performs a balloon-swallowing stunt, has been seen by... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-07 09:00:00 UTC ]
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Illustrator Sarah McIntyre calls on the BBC to allow physical copies of children's books on its programmes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-01 12:36:28 UTC ]
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The novel has sparked thoughtful conversations about where women fit into a male-centric narrative. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-01 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Marc Hamer probes the essence of nature, solitude, and the accommodations we make between deeply held beliefs and our everyday behavior. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-09-30 21:10:04 UTC ]
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Marc Hamer probes the essence of nature, solitude, and the accommodations we make between deeply held beliefs and our everyday behavior. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-09-30 21:10:04 UTC ]
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Marc Hamer probes the essence of nature, solitude, and the accommodations we make between deeply held beliefs and our everyday behavior. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-09-30 21:10:04 UTC ]
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Southern California Independent Booksellers Association members unanimously voted to dissolve the bookselling organization at the nonprofit's Fall Trade Show, and are now hoping to unite California booksellers as a single organization. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is running an experiment to hide "like" counts and other public-facing social scores in select markets. The social network confirmed Friday that it started hiding like, reaction and video view counts in a limited test across the social network as part of an effort to improve the... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-27 20:39:27 UTC ]
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Facebook is running an experiment to hide "like" counts and other public-facing social scores in select markets. The social network confirmed Friday that it started hiding like, reaction and video view counts in a limited test across the social network as part of an effort to improve the... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-27 20:39:27 UTC ]
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The third and final volume of Charles Moore’s epic Margaret Thatcher biography will be released on Super Thursday, Allen Lane has announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-25 10:44:22 UTC ]
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The Nielsen Social Content Ratings measure talent's promotion of television shows across Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and its data from Instagram just became more robust. Nielsen said in a release that the improvement was made possible by Instagram's recent enabling of creator account... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-09-19 13:30:21 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association (BA) has launched the last of three rounds of Diversity & Inclusiveness Grants for its members. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-09 16:43:33 UTC ]
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Join us for the ne edition of Persist, a feminist book club on Instagram, and check out our fall book pick! Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-09-04 18:56:38 UTC ]
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A bookseller shares lessons learned from navigating the bookseller-author dynamic. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-30 10:00:24 UTC ]
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On March 1, at the headquarters of a solar-panel company in Seattle, Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington, jumped into the Democratic presidential primary as a climate-focused candidate. The following week, amid a flurry of interviews, Inslee went on Rachel Maddow’s show, on MSNBC, to make the... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-08-23 12:09:26 UTC ]
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Black & White Publishing has snapped up Edinburgh-based food and drink reviewer Ailidh Forlan's take on street food. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-16 12:35:25 UTC ]
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Ken Cuccinelli offered his own revision of one of America’s most famous poems. It wasn’t pretty. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-14 19:58:00 UTC ]
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Abruptly-shuttered Pacific Standard is, in its final breaths, recommending some fall reading material in a list from contributing editor Maris Kreizman along with other contributors to the magazine. Senior editor Ted Scheinman writes, “While Pacific Standard won’t be around in the fall, these... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-08-14 18:09:20 UTC ]
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Author’s son explains that wish for accessibility has persuaded trustees to look past his father’s dislike of digital mediaAfter years of refusing to allow publishers to digitise his works, the estate of JD Salinger has announced that the author’s famously small body of work will be published as... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-08-12 15:49:19 UTC ]
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All of J.D. Salinger’s works will be available as e-books starting this week. Disaffected youth can finally read Catcher in the Rye on their Kindle Paperwhites, just like J.D. Salinger intended.Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-08-12 10:34:36 UTC ]
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