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Facebook Considers Allowing Users to Hide Comments on Posts

Facebook is considering introducing a feature already in effect on Instagram that will allow users to secretly ban comments from selected users without their knowledge, effectively shadowbanning their responses to posts.

The feature, called Restrict on Instagram, is similar to Twitters recently-introduced feature that allows users to hide certain replies to tweets.

Bostrom told the Sun that the feature had been introduced on Instagram first, because the imagesharing platforms userbase skews younger, and is thus more susceptible to cyber-bullying.

Twitter introduced a similar hide replies feature last month, which allows users to hide selected responses to their tweets.

Users viewing a discussion underneath the tweet of a user who has opted in to this feature now have to check a button in order to view hidden replies.

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