A new school partnership program has been launched by Instagram which has been designed for helping educators and teachers for reporting potential safety issues directly to Instagram. With this partnership with schools, this will help to take action on instances of harassment and bullying and give educators and parents further confidence as they would help teenagers navigate online spaces.
Schools signing up to become an IG school partner would be able to issue prioritized reports to Instagram moderation team which would be fast tracked for review. It would also be providing educational resources for helping support efforts for improving digital literacy and keeping young people aware about online dangers whereas school partner participants would also be able to display new banner on their profile and show students and parents that they have made this a focus.
Their banner link to dedicated safety resources. It would be a major connective tool for several teenagers which would make it a focus for cyberbullying. It has been highlighted in Adolescence which is a Netflix series and which has been already viewed around 24 million times within first week of its release. In the TV series, a teenager gets bullied on Instagram which leads to anger and real world violence as a result. This has led to more conversations regarding online safety among parents of teens and several people would be looking for more assurance that enough is being done for addressing concerns before things get out of hand.
The school partnership program from Instagram would help with that and expand reporting capacity of the platform which would give schools further impetus and powers for raising concerns as they see them.
