Inner Sircle

On this episode, I talk about how Instagram Outlined Steps to Address Potential Areas of Racial Inequality on its Platform. Mosseri outlined four steps that Instagram will be taking to improve racial representation and equality on its platform. Harassment - Mosseri says that Instagram will be looking to address any potential gaps in its policies which may be seeing different groups experience more harassment and abuse Account verification - Mosseri says that Instagram will also re-assess its verification process to ensure that there's no endemic bias in how verification is allocated and approved. "Verification is an area we constantly get questions on - what the guidelines are, and whether or not the criteria is favoring some groups more than others." Distribution - Mosseri also says that Instagram will review its content policies to ensure that there's no inherent bias in how content is chosen for its Explore and Hashtag pages. Mosseri also says it will investigate "shadowbanning", which sees content g