This is the new reason why Instagram can delete your photos

Instagram gets serious. Currently, the photography social network where live the most important influencers in the world digital displays muscle against cyberbullying, hate news and fake news (in our language, the fake news of a lifetime). Well then, we are going to stop at this last point.

Instagram and the 'fake news': there is still a long way to go

Fake news is a real problem.They have so much power that they can establish new presidencies, through a propaganda network that feeds on our personal data, as happened in the case of Cambridge Analytica. That is why social networks must take sides against this problem and adopt a behavior of non-tolerance. But without passing. And this is where we have the problem. Human help is limited when it comes to fighting spam and fake news and needs Artificial Intelligence algorithm to detect them. And it is not an infallible method, sometimes punishing those who do not deserve it.

Be careful with Photoshop on your Instagram photos

This Artificial Intelligence algorithm is also supported, to detect content suspected of violating Instagram's conditions, in user reports.Some reports that may or may not be legal, based more on vested interests or pure envy towards a certain user. A new obstacle to turn the Instagram community into a he althy and strengthened community. What is happening, then, in this new phase of the fight against 'fake news'? Well, there may be a chance that they will delete a photograph 'too' retouched with Photoshop or with any other program. And it doesn't matter if the photograph is a portrait and we have gone too far with the beauty effect, or an image retouched to pass it off as 'unreal' (art does not have to imitate life).

The photographer Toby Harriman has denounced it through his personal Facebook account. While he was browsing his feed or photographs on the social network, he found that one of his images had been covered with a blurred filter, a procedure that Instagram uses to warn of false content or that can hurt the sensitivity of the user.The image that was censored is far from hurting the sensitivity but it is also far from showing "reality" as it is. It is a beautiful print of mountains that, properly retouched, appear colored in a fantastic and unreal way.

Instagram has a real problem on the table, since it cannot distinguish, at the moment, if certain material is false with bad intentions (for example, a face retouching to humiliate a person, a montage in which many more demonstrators can be seen than there actually were, to magnify its success) or, quite simply, it is a work with no other pretensions than to highlight a certain artistic trend. Is a movie poster showing planets and aliens from outer space 'fake'? At the moment there is no evidence of intelligent life outside our planet.And inside, what is there is sometimes not as close as it should be.

It was in August of last year when Instagram updated its rules to combat false information. Numerous experts consider that Instagram is one of the most powerful tools to manipulate the user, it seems to make them think in a certain way to achieve specific purposes. And with great power comes great responsibility.