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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Your choice in Instagram’s political content settings tool ‘mistakenly appeared to have reset,’ the company says.

Instagram has a new setting that allows users to filter content that some users may deem upsetting or offensive. The feature is an expansion of Instagram's "Sensitive Content Control," a product ...

Nick is a Features author who's been writing for fellow tech geeks since 2011. While he's mostly focused on phones, he's also thrilled by cameras and audio gear of all shapes and sizes. On weekends, ...

Instagram's Explore tab can feel like the Wild West at times. The feed shows recommended posts from accounts you don't follow, but you never really know what you'll see. It might feature a photo, ...

In July 2022, TikTok introduced a tool called Filter Video Keywords to let users block videos with words or hashtags they did not want to see. Cormac Keenan, Head of Trust and Safety at TikTok, ...

Google could be about to give users new settings to control Gemini responses. This “content filter” would presumably offer control over the extent to which Gemini censors itself. The Gemini API ...

Twitch now lets you filter out livestreams that have been labelled as including mature themes, including sexual, violent, and profane content. This means no more sifting through family-unfriendly ...

Instagram users around the platform share one central concern right now: that the app’s new sensitive content filter is blocking their posts. In posts on both the feed and in Stories, account holders ...

Last year, Instagram added a way for users to filter some kinds of “sensitive” content out of the Explore tab. Now, Instagram is expanding that setting, letting users turn off that content in ...