Instagram adds new tools that should be able to detect self-harm and suicide content and take it down immediately

The new update aims to properly identify harmful content and make it less apparent in the app. If the tools are sufficiently confident, the posts can be deleted entirely without actually looking at them by a human being, Instagram said.

This tool is also used on Facebook and Instagram outside the EU, where it requires additional layers that also see posts sent to human reviewers, who can then take more action, such as linking the poster to local aid groups and, in the most extreme situations, calling emergency services.

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