Instagram Announces Additional Updates To Its Platform

Instagram officially announced its additional updates for its platform.

Instagram officially announced its additional updates for its platform in order to help its users in accessing information about COVID-19 and staying connected.

This, as the nation was currently having a battle with the coronavirus disease that killed people across the globe. Most of the countries imposed lockdowns in order to contain the coronavirus disease or COVID-19.

Currently, the Philippines was under the state of calamity because of coronavirus disease or COVID-19.

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Here is the list of additional updated that were announced by Instagram:

  • Accessing precise information about the coronavirus disease by having additional educational resources in Instagram Search and adding various stickers to promote precise information
  • Keeping the community safe by way of removing COVID-19 accounts from its recommendations except if posted by a credible health organization, downranking content — rated “false” by various third-party fact-checkers — in Stories and Feed, removing conspiracies and false claims, and prohibiting misleading advertisements for various products that refer to COVID-19 as well as temporarily banning branded contents that promoting medical supplies
  • Staying connected by way of adding Donation sticker to your Story as well as adding its new COVID-19 section in order for the users to identify relevant non-profit organizations, launching media sharing feature, and adding “Stay Home” sticker that allows users to see how other users were practicing social distancing as of this moment.

For more information about these updates, you can read Instagram’s post by clicking this link.

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