Topic: social media policy

December 19, 2025

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Instagram Cracks Down on Hashtag Spam

Instagram is limiting hashtags to five per post to reduce spam and encourage more meaningful content discovery, prioritizing quality over quantity. The policy aligns with a similar restriction on Threads and signals a company-wide philosophy of fostering authentic community engagement over algori...

Reddit Adds Human Verification to Combat Bot Activity

Reddit is implementing a new human verification checkpoint for accounts flagged as potential bots to combat spam and coordinated manipulation. This aggressive layer of defense aims to disrupt malicious bots that spread misinformation, inflate engagement, or harass users. The policy is part of a b...

Musk Halts X Plan to Cut Foreign Influencer Revenue

X's Head of Product announced a plan to change creator monetization by prioritizing revenue from a creator's home region to combat engagement farming, but the update has been paused by Elon Musk. The proposed shift aimed to discourage artificially gaming the system by targeting high-value geograp...