Instagram adds another tool to its arsenal of anti-propelled measures. This time, however, Meta directly enlist school officials in order to accelerate her response to security problems affecting young adolescents. The company presents a new “school partnership program” which aims to give teachers and school administrators a way to intervene when students experience intimidation on Instagram.
The program offers schools something that many parents have long said they wanted: a means of acid the reports in the application that directly affects young students. Meta promises that schools that join the program will have their reports “prioritized” in his queue of moderation and that he will respond to these reports within 48 hours. Schools that register will also receive a “school partner” badge annexed to their Instagram account, as well as integrated information on how to use its reporting tools and other resources.
However, it does not seem that Meta hires additional content moderators to help these new accelerated reports. Asked about the increase in staff to support the program, an Instagram spokesman told Eggadget only that school reports will be “accelerated” via its existing report channels, and that schools will be able to add "additional context" to their reports.
Meta says he has already tested the program with 60 schools and that the first results were “promising”. Now colleges and high schools in the United States can To join a waiting list for the program.
The pilot program is far from the first time that Instagram has tried to treat intimidation. The application has introduced features limiting comments and added a harder "" Functionality last year. But although these features can help adolescents avoid certain types of negative interactions, they have always forced adolescents (or their parents) to modify their parameters. Now in schools more authority to report specific intimidation or other bad behaviors, Meta offers a certain hope that it will be easier for schools to treat underlying behavior.
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