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Twitter will now highlight when it takes an action on a reported tweet, making its over 330 million users understand that the tweet was forcibly taken down and not deleted by its user owing to public outrage. According to twitter when the tweet is about to be deleted, Twitter will display a notice stating that the Tweet is unavailable because it violated the Twitter Rules along with a link to the Rules. This notice will be displayed on both the account’s profile and the specific Tweet for 14 days after the Tweet is deleted. The users further complained that they do not want to continue seeing the Tweets that have been reported. So that too has been resolved once the update rolls out if a person had reported a Tweet, it will be hidden behind a notice and if there’s a need to see the reported Tweet, the user can tap the notification to view it. "Now, once we"ve required a Tweet to be deleted, we will display a notice stating that the Tweet is unavailable because it violated th...

Instagram is taking action against trolls and bullies. The social media giant has rolled out new machine learning tools that are able to "proactively detect" bullying in photos and captions. “While the majority of photos shared on Instagram are positive and bring people joy, occasionally a photo is shared that is unkind or unwelcome,” Instagram’s new lead Adam Mosseri wrote in a blog post . “We are now using machine learning technology to proactively detect bullying in photos and their captions and send them to our Community Operations team to review.” One of Instagram’s new tools is bullying detection in captions and photos. Any unkind posts that are detected through the new machine learning technology will be sent to Instagram’s Community Operations team for human review. Users will also be empowered to select the comments that appear during their live videos, meaning they can hide and filter out any bullying messages—This feature works ...

Do you want to know what does a "healthy" social media network look like in 2018? For Twitter, it includes making "disruptive" tweets that "distort the conversation" less visible. Starting from today, The micro-blogging platform announced it will roll out a tweak to its algorithm that will obscure tweets categorised in this way, so that they are not immediately seen by users. According to Del Harvey, Twitter VP of Trust & Safety, a small subset of tweets have an outsize impact on the "health" of the Twitter platform. "Not necessarily in a way that violates our rules, but in a way that really detracts from the conversation," she said. The new feature is particularly aimed at search results and conversations — spaces it deems to be "communal" — Twitter will hide or push down "disruptive" tweets without waiting for them to be reported. The tweets will not be deleted if they don"t violate the site"s term ...