LONDON — Instagram says it’s deploying new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically blur nudity in direct messages. Instagram said scammers often use direct messages to ask for “intimate images.” To counter this, it will soon start testing out a nudity-protection feature for direct messages that blurs any images with nudity …
Meta-backed social media platform Instagram revealed on Thursday that it is testing new features to protect users from sextortion and other forms of "intimate image abuse". The company said it will soon roll out a nudity protection feature in Instagram DMs, which will automatically detect images containing nudity and encourage people to "think twice" before sending nude images. Meta said …
