Instagram is flexing its muscles against online bullies, to protect users' well-being.
On Tuesday, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing website announced that it will apply a new machine learning tool that can proactively identify bullying in photos and captions and then feed them into the website’s Community Operations team for human review. The technology is expected to detect bullying gestures such as comparing and ranking images/captions (e.g., on a split-screen, a person being compared with an image in a negative or demeaning way could get flagged).
Even earlier in the year, Instagram expressed its grave concerns about online bullying and harassment, and said that it will delete bullying posts/comments.